Australian Catholic Bishops and the First Vatican Council 1869-70 describes in fascinating detail the intellectual challenges and multiple social pressures Catholicism was facing from the Enlightenment and Liberal Democratic processes – ideas that successive Popes had condemned, seeing these as part of a determination to destroy traditional Catholicism from within. The book is more than a history. It is a reflection on the processes within the Council, where infallibility rather than primacy was the focus of much of the debate, and the outcome was the Council’s institutionalisation of a monarchical Church, a model accepted and celebrated in Australia, with effects lasting even to our own times.
Australian Catholic Bishops and the First Vatican Council 1869 – 1870
$31.95
An Historical Reflection
By: Peter Price
Pages:208
Publisher: Morning Star Publishing
Dimensions:148mm x 210mm
ISBN:9780995416178
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Dimensions | 210 × 148 mm |
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Pages | 212 |
By | Peter Price |
Publisher | Morning Star Publishing |
Dimensions | 148mm x 210mm |
ISBN | 9780995416178 |