The Blackwell Companion to CatholicismISBN: 978-1-4443-3732-7
Paperback
544 pages
December 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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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