The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism

Format

ebook

ISBN

9781405112246

Release

15 April 2008

Subjects

Religion & Spirituality Nonfiction

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The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism offers an extensive survey of the history, doctrine, practices, and global circumstances of Roman Catholicism, written by a range of distinguished and experienced Catholic writers.

Engages its readers in an informed and informative conversation about Roman Catholic life and thought

Embraces the local and the global, the past and the present, life and the afterlife, and a broad range of institutions and activities

Considers both what is distinctive about Catholic life and thought, and how Catholicism overlaps with and transforms other ways of thinking and living

Topics covered include: peacemaking, violence and wars; money, the vow of poverty and socio-economic life; art by and about Catholics; and men, women and sex