What Do Catholics Believe? (What Do We Believe) - Softcover

Caldecott, Léonie

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ISBN 10: 1847080030 ISBN 13: 9781847080035

Verlag: Granta Books, 2012

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The Catholic Church is by far the largest Christian denomination and the largest organized body of any world religion. Well over a billion people - or over one-sixth of the world's population - belong to the Roman Catholic Church. But what do Catholics actually believe? While not neglecting those aspects of the faith which all Christians share, Leonie Caldecott's volume in the What Do We Believe? series pays particular attention to those aspects of the faith which make Catholicism distinctive. She emphasizes the importance to Catholics of a sense of the history of their Church (in both its positive and negative aspects) traceable back to St Peter, the first Pope, and the central role of the Papacy ever since. But more important still is the sacrament of Mass: the sharing in the humanity of God incarnate, the participation - through an act as simple as eating - in his divinity. The book also explains such aspects of the faith as the Holy Spirit, the importance of Mary and other saints, the doctrine of Papal Infallibility, and looks at the challenges the faith has to confront in the twenty-first century.

Biografía del autor:

Leonie Caldecott was born in London and educated at the French Lycee and Oxford. In her early years as a freelance journalist she won the 1982 Catherine Pakenham Award. Since becoming a Roman Catholic, she has lectured on faith and culture in places as diverse as the Pontifical Council for Culture in Rome and Oxford Brookes. She is associate director of the Thomas More Centre for Faith and Culture in Oxford, where she lives with her husband and three daughters.

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• Verlag: Granta Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1847080030
• ISBN 13: 9781847080035
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 130