Rule of Benedict
There was no neutral response to the announcement that the enforcer—Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger—had been elected Benedict XVI, the next pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Conservatives saw it as the final triumph of their agenda. Liberals were aghast. Everyone else wondered what to expect. Award-winning religion journalist David Gibson explores the war of ideas that will be a defining feature of this new papacy. Gibson persuasively argues that by tackling the modern world head-on Benedict XVI is gambling that he can make traditional, orthodox Catholicism the savior of contemporary society. But if the elderly Benedict fails in his battle with mo…
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- ISBN: 978-0-06-175336-7
- EAN: 9780061753367
- Produktnummer: 29227714
- Verlag: Harper Collins
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
Über den Autor
David Gibson is an award-winning religion writer and a committed lay Catholic. He writes about Catholicism for various newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, Boston magazine, Fortune, Commonweal, and America. He was the religion writer for the The Star-Ledger of New Jersey. Gibson has worked in Rome for Vatican Radio and traveled frequently with Pope John Paul II. He has co-written several recent documentaries on Christianity for CNN.
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