The Final Revolution : The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism

George Weigel

ISBN 10: 0195166647 / ISBN 13: 9780195166644

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2003

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Many Western commentators have identified the conflict between communism and consumerism as the key factor in the `Revolution of 1989' in eastern Europe. However, in this challenging new book, George Weigel argues that the real root of the Revolution lay in a radical rejection of what Vaclav Havel called communism's `culture of the lie'. Beginning with the `martyr-cardinals' of the 1950s, Weigel considers the role of the Roman Catholic Church in opposing nearly forty years of Kremlin dictates, and examines why the Church was able to ensure the protest of 1989 was civil, nonviolent, and democratic. He also assesses the impact of the election of John Paul II on the Eastern Bloc, and looks at his `grand' strategy for Catholicism's third millennium and the place in it of a re-Christianized Europe. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780195166644

Inhaltsangabe:

A noted Catholic thinker offers a unique perspective on the collapse of Communism

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Author of Tranquillitas Ordinis (OUP 1987)

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Final Revolution : The Resistance Church...
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
Einband: Taschenbuch
Zustand: Neu