The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism
Copyright © 2007 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Editor(s): James J. Buckley, Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, Trent Pomplun
Published Online: 1 FEB 2008
Print ISBN: 9781405112246
Online ISBN: 9780470751343
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751343
About this Book
Product Information
About The Product
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