The Catholic Church in the modern age
Summary: In this course, Saint Louis University professor Thomas F. Madden focuses on a Church both adapting to a world in flux and striving to exert its influence and power. Throughout modernity, the Church responded to--and weathered--a host of major world events: the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, colonization of the New World, and of course the World Wars that in large part defined the twentieth century.
Contents:
- At the dawn of a new world
- To the corners of the Earth: overseas missions
- The Catholic Church in the Age of Absolutism
- The Catholic Church and the Enlightenment
- The French Revolution
- Napoleon and the Church
- The Challenge of Liberalism
- Struggles with nationalism
- Vatican I and the fall of Papal Rome
- The Catholic Church in North America
- Labor and war
- In an age of dictators
- Vatican II
- Pope John Paul II and beyond.
Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD
, [Prince Frederick, Md.]
, Recorded Books
, [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
Language(s): English
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In this course, Saint Louis University professor Thomas F. Madden focuses on a Church both adapting to a world in flux and striving to exert its influence and power. Throughout modernity, the Church responded to--and weathered--a host of major world events: the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, colonization of the New World, and of course the World Wars that in large part defined the twentieth century.
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[Distributed by] OneClick Digital
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