Godfrey Kurth

Broschiertes Buch

The Church at the Turning Points of History

Beschreibung

Love it or hate it, the Catholic Church has been for 2,000 years at the very center of Europe and Western civilization in all its important aspects: theological, political, social, moral, economic, etc. It has been attacked on many different grounds, often violently, yet it still remains standing. Occasionally weakened, and then subject to an energetic renaissance, the Church can look back upon now long-gone empires, emperors, kings, intellectual traditions and philosophies, heresies and schisms, and in all cases say, "I was there." It is this miracle of constant regeneration which is the mystery of the Church for non-believers; the same mystery is the consolation and proof of the truth of Catholicism for believers. Those who wish to enter into some kind of understanding of this unique history, but who do not have the time to devote months or years to study, can get a wonderful grasp of the essentials in reading this book. Concise, erudite, and intelligent without being abstruse, it provides all the information that a casual reader might wish to know, and provides an indication for further study if required. No one who reads this book, friend or foe, will come away from reading it and remain unchanged.

Autor

Professor Kurth was a leading Belgian Catholic historian of the second half of the nineteenth century. Indeed his renown was such that the prestigious Catholic Encyclopedia featured more than a dozen contributions from him on a range of subjects within his professional expertise. He completed his education at l'Ecole normale des Humanités de Liège (1868) and thereafter served as Professor of French at l'Athénée de Liège (1869-1872). Eventually he succeeded Adolphe Borgnet at the Chair of Medieval History and the History of Belgium at the State University of Liege (1872-1906), during which time (1873) he received his special doctorate in historical sciences. He was the Secretary of the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome (1906-1916). He was a member of the Academy of the Catholic Religion in Rome; a member of the Royal Society of Literature in London; a member of the Dutch Literary Society in Leyden; a member of the Madrid Historical Academy; he was the President of the Board of Administration of the Royal Library. These are only a few of his many titles. He was also a Commander of the Order of Leopold and a Knight of the Order of Pius IX. He was the author of some 20 books, many of them multi-volume, and a number of which ran to five and more editions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: IHS Press
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 174g
• ISBN-13: 9781932528091
• ISBN-10: 1932528091
• Artikelnr.: 22985735