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Book Rome and the Invention of the Papacy

Download or read book Rome and the Invention of the Papacy written by Rosamond McKitterick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full study of the most remarkable history of the early popes and their relationship with Rome, the Liber pontificalis.

Book Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes

Download or read book Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes written by Andrew J. Ekonomou and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007-01-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes examines the scope and extent to which the East influenced Rome and the Papacy following the Justinian Reconquest of Italy in the middle of the sixth century through the pontificate of Zacharias and the collapse of the exarchate of Ravenna in 752. A combination of factors resulted in the arrival of significant numbers of easterners in Rome, and those immigrants had brought with them a number of eastern customs and practices previously unknown in the city. Greek influence became apparent in art, religious ceremonial and liturgics, sacred music, the rhetoric of doctrinal debate, the growth of eastern monastic communities, and charitable institutions, and the proliferation of the cults of eastern saints and ecclesiastical feast days and, in particular, devotion to the Theotokos or Mother of God. From the late seventh to the middle of the eighth century, eleven of the thirteen Roman pontiffs were the sons of families of eastern provenance. While conceding that over the course of the seventh century Rome indeed experienced the impact of an important Greek element, some scholars of the period have insisted that the degree to which Rome and the Papacy were 'orientalized' has been exaggerated, while others argue that the extent of their 'byzantinization' has not been fully appreciated. The question has also been raised as to whether Rome's oriental popes were responsible for sowing the seeds of separatism from Byzantium and laying the foundation for a future papal state, or whether they were loyal imperial subjects ever steadfast politically, although not always so in matters of the faith, to the reigning sovereign in Constantinople. Finally, there is the important issue of whether one could still speak of a single and undivided imperium Roman christianum in the seventh and early eighth centuries or whether the concept of imperial unity in the epoch following Gregory the Great was a quaint and fanciful fiction as East and West, ignoring and misunderstanding one another, began to go their separate ways. Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes provides a guide through this complicated and often contradictory history.

Book Rome in America

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  • Author : Peter R. D'Agostino
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780807855157
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book Rome in America written by Peter R. D'Agostino and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, historians have argued that Catholicism in the United States stood decisively apart from papal politics in European society. Drawing on previously unexamined documents from Italian state collections and newly opened Vatican archives, Peter D'Agostino paints a starkly different portrait.

Book Court and Politics in Papal Rome  1492   1700

Download or read book Court and Politics in Papal Rome 1492 1700 written by Gianvittorio Signorotto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2002 book attempts to overcome the traditional historiographical approach to the role of the early modern papacy by focusing on the actual mechanisms of power in the papal court. The period covered extends from the Renaissance to the aftermath of the peace of Westphalia in 1648 - after which the papacy was reduced to a mainly spiritual role. Based on research in Italian and other European archives, the book concentrates on the factions at the Roman court and in the college of cardinals. The sacred college came under great international pressure during the election of a new pope, and consequently such figures as foreign ambassadors and foreign cardinals are examined, as well as political liaisons and social contacts at court. Finally, the book includes an analysis of the ambiguous nature of Roman ceremonial, which was both religious and secular: a reflection of the power struggle both in Rome and in Europe.

Book The Rise and Fall of Rome Papal     New Edition

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Rome Papal New Edition written by Robert FLEMING (the Younger.) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes of Rome During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Download or read book The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes of Rome During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries written by Leopold Ranke and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-26 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

Book Rome Has Spoken

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  • Author : Maureen Fiedler
  • Publisher : Crossroad Publishing
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Rome Has Spoken written by Maureen Fiedler and published by Crossroad Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating compendium of official statements from popes and councils--together with commentary from contemporary scholars--that reveals the historic evolution of Roman Catholic teaching.

Book Roman Pilgrimage

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  • Author : George Weigel
  • Publisher : Constellation
  • Release : 2013-10-29
  • ISBN : 0465027695
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Roman Pilgrimage written by George Weigel and published by Constellation. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual Lenten pilgrimage to dozens of Rome’s most striking churches is a sacred tradition dating back almost two millennia, to the earliest days of Christianity. Along this historic spiritual pathway, today’s pilgrims confront the mysteries of the Christian faith through a program of biblical and early Christian readings amplified by some of the greatest art and architecture of western civilization. In Roman Pilgrimage, bestselling theologian and papal biographer George Weigel, art historian Elizabeth Lev, and photographer Stephen Weigel lead readers through this unique religious and aesthetic journey with magnificent photographs and revealing commentaries on the pilgrimage’s liturgies, art, and architecture. Through reflections on each day’s readings about faith and doubt, heroism and weakness, self-examination and conversion, sin and grace, Rome’s familiar sites take on a new resonance. And along that same historical path, typically unexplored treasures—artifacts of ancient history and hidden artistic wonders—appear in their original luster, revealing new dimensions of one of the world’s most intriguing and multi-layered cities. A compelling guide to the Eternal City, the Lenten Season, and the itinerary of conversion that is Christian life throughout the year, Roman Pilgrimage reminds readers that the imitation of Christ through faith, hope, and love is the template of all true discipleship, as the exquisite beauty of the Roman station churches invites reflection on the deepest truths of Christianity.

Book On the Donation of Constantine

Download or read book On the Donation of Constantine written by Lorenzo Valla and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. His most famous work is the present volume, an oration in which Valla uses new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule.

Book The Early Modern Papacy

Download or read book The Early Modern Papacy written by Anthony David Wright and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text on the Papacy covers the period from the Renaissance to the French Revolution. It focuses on the multiple commitments of the Popes of this period as Bishop of Rome, Head of the Catholic Church in W. Europe, Supreme Pontiff and Ruler of the Papal States in Central Italy.

Book The Early Papacy

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  • Author : Adrian Fortescue
  • Publisher : Ignatius Press
  • Release : 2010-09-15
  • ISBN : 168149485X
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book The Early Papacy written by Adrian Fortescue and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Alcuin Reid Adrian Fortescue, a British apologist for the Catholic faith in the early part of the 20th century, wrote this classic of clear exposition on the faith of the early Church in the papacy based upon the writings of the Church fathers until 451. No ultramontanist, Fortescue can be a keen critic of personal failings of various Popes, but he shows through his brilliant assessment of the writings of the Church fathers that the early Church had a clear understanding of the primacy of Peter and a belief in the divinely given authority of the Pope in matters of faith and morals. Referring to the famous passage in Matthew 16:18 where Jesus confers his authority upon Peter as the head of the Apostles, and the first Pope, Fortescue says that, while Christians can continue to argue about the exact meaning of that passage from Scripture, and the various standards that are used for judgments about correct Christian teaching and belief, ""the only possible real standard is a living authority, an authority alive in the world at this moment, that can answer your difficulties, reject a false theory as it arises and say who is right in disputed interpretations of ancient documents."" Fortescue shows that the papacy actually seems to be one of the clearest and easiest dogmas to prove from the early Church. And it is his hope through this work that it will contribute to a ressourcement with regard to the office of the papacy among those in communion with the Bishop of Rome, and that it will assist those outside this communion to seek it out, confident that it is willed by Christ for all who would be joined to him in this life and in the next.

Book The Popes of Rome

Download or read book The Popes of Rome written by Leopold von Ranke and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Popes and Patriarchs

Download or read book Popes and Patriarchs written by Michael Whelton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For any dialogue between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches to be fruitful, we must first understand our differences. Popes and Patriarchs covers some of the distinctives in theology and worldview that separate the churches of the East from those of the West, focusing primarily on the claims of papal supremacy. Author Michael Whelton, a convert from Catholicism to Orthodoxy, discusses some of the theological and historical issues that led him to explore the teachings of the Orthodox Church, including the doctrine of original sin, the influence of Medieval scholastic thought on the Western Church, and the modern trend toward evolutionary Christianity. Part II examines in depth the true attitude of the early Eastern saints of the Church toward the papacy, an attitude radically different from that frequently attributed to them by Roman Catholic apologists.A final chapter is devoted to typical questions Roman Catholics raise about the Orthodox Church, including a comprehensive discussion of divorce and remarriage.

Book A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome

Download or read book A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome written by Mandell Creighton and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed study of the papacy during the Reformation was first published between 1882 and 1894. The author was an academic and an ordained Anglican. Having studied at Oxford and spent time in the parish of Embleton in Northumberland, he was appointed the first Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge, became Bishop of Peterborough and ended his career as Bishop of London.

Book Rome and the Papacy

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  • Author : Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1859
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Rome and the Papacy written by Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: