Summary
In about 700 A-to-Z entries, 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 high school and junior college students, as well as the layperson, with the tools to help them understand this multifaceted religion. This encyclopedia also features approximately 80 black-and-white illustrations, a comprehensive introduction that provides an overview of the tradition, a list of popes and antipopes, an extensive chronology, a detailed bibliography, and an index.
Entries include:
- Abbess/abbot
- Africa
- Anti-Semitism
- Apocalypse
- Baptism
- Benedict XVI
- Canon
- Charismatic renewal
- Christianity/Catholicism
- Dorothy Day
- Death and dying
- Donatism
- Meister Eckhart
- Ecotheology
- Family
- France
- Galileo Galilei
- Greek Catholic Church
- Holy Roman Empire
- Holy Spirit
- Investiture Controversy
- Knights Templar
- Liberation theology
- Liturgical music
- Opus Dei
- Papal bull
- Relics
- Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez
- Vatican City
- John Wycliffe
- and more.
Specifications
Black-and-white photographs. Index. Bibliography. Cross-references. Chronology.
About the Author(s)
Frank K. Flinn is an adjunct professor of religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He obtained a B.Div. from Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. in special religious studies from St. Michael's College, Toronto School of Theology.