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Encyclopedic guide explores the terms, concepts, personalities, historical events, and institutions that helped shape the history of Catholicism and the way it is practiced today.
Jesus asked the simple question, "Who do you say that I am?" Throughout history the proliferation of responses has ranged from the personal (You are the Savior of my soul), to the ontological (You are the Logos of God, the eternal and incarnate Word), to the humanist (You are the Man of Nazareth, shining example of ethics taught as ethics lived), to the theopolitical (You are the Liberator of the oppresed). Even today, christology oscillates between the center and the periphery, between an interpretation of the Christ as a sociopolitical reformer of this world, and other worldly views of the Christ as a private rescuer from a corrupt world soon to pass away. Christology: The Center and the P...
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Encyclopedia of Catholicism covers the key people, movements, institutions, practices, and doctrines of Roman Catholicism from its earliest origins. Focusing on the living faith and its historical and social background, this volume provides academic and college students with the tools to help them understand this multifaceted religion.
AndrT Droogers is Professor Emeritus of Cultural Anthropology at VU University, Amsterdam --