The Blackwell Companion to CatholicismISBN: 978-1-4051-1224-6
Hardcover
544 pages
March 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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- 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
- Provides a comprehensive and far-reaching reference volume on the history, doctrine, practices, and global circumstances of Roman Catholics.