Upon This Rock
The Popes and Their Changing Role
$54.44
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
11 June 1996
Summary
Controversial Catholic priest Paul Collins describes the evolution of the office of the papacy over two millennia from St Peter to Pope John Paul II.
The papacy is the greatest and longest-lasting institution in the history of the West. In Upon This Rock, Paul Collins describes the evolution of the office of the papacy over the past two millennia, from St Peter to Pope John Paul II.
Other recent histories of the papacy treat it as a political or social phenomenon.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522848496 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522848494 |
| Author: | Paul Collins |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 11 June 1996 |
| Weight: | 826g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 163mm x 242mm |
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Paul Collins
Paul Collins is a Catholic priest. Trained in history at Harvard University and the Australian National University, he is a well-known broadcaster and writer of popular theology. His previous books include God’s Earth (1995), which became an ABC TV documentary, and Papal Power- A Proposal for Change in Catholicism’s Third Millennium (1997), which is currently under investigation by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in Rome.
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