Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World by Collins, Paul

Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781610398602)

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Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World by Collins, Paul

Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World

$40.00
Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World by Collins, Paul

Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World

$40.00
Format: Hardcover
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The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authority

In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. With cardinals scattered across Europe and the next papal election uncertain, even if Catholicism survived, it seemed the papacy was finished.
In this gripping narrative of religious and political history, Paul Collins tells the improbable success story of the last 220 years of the papacy, from the unexalted death of Pope Pius VI in 1799 to the celebrity of Pope Francis today. In a strange contradiction, as the papacy has lost its physical power -- its armies and states -- and remained stubbornly opposed to the currents of social and scientific consensus, it has only increased its influence and political authority in the world.

Author: Paul Collins
ISBN-10: 1610398602
ISBN-13: 9781610398602
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Language: English
Published: 03/27/2018
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/08/2018
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2018
Library Journal 02/15/2018 pg. 69
By Paul Collins
By Paul Collins
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Paul Collins is a historian and broadcaster with degrees from Harvard and the Australian National University. He has worked as a religious commentator for Australian Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, PBS, and more; as a teacher of theology and history; and as a Catholic priest. In March 2001, he resigned from active ministry due to a doctrinal dispute with the Vatican over his book, Papal Power. He is also the author of The Birth of the West, published by PublicAffairs in 2013.

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