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Christopher M. Bellitto
A succinct, up to date and chronological history of the 21 general councils, along with their major tasks, achievements and failures and their impact on their times.
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This book follows the tide of reform and renewal in Church history, and demonstrates that reform has always been an essential element of Christianity. Indeed, Christopher Bellitto emphasizes that reform…
101 Questions & Answers on Popes and the Papacy tackles almost every question posed in April 2005 during the dying and death of Pope John Paul II and the election…
Context shapes behavior and provokes questions. As men and women adapt to new times and ways, their faith, too, must adapt. In The Living Church: Old Treasures, New Discoveries, Christopher…
The wise elders of the Bible impart great wisdom for those on the spiritual journey. As Pope Francis said recently, It’s good for the elderly to communicate their wisdom to…
This cultural history of humility reveals this lost virtue as a secret defense against arrogance and incivility
History demonstrates that when the virtue of humility is cast aside, excessive individualism…
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This volume commemorates the 6th centennial of the birth of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), a Renaissance polymath whose interests included law, politics, metaphysics, epistemology, theology, mysticism and relations between Christians…
Christopher M. Bellitto,David Zachariah Flanagin
At the conclusion of his definitive study The Idea of Reform, which carved out reform as a distinct field of intellectual history, Gerhart Ladner stated that the idea of reform…
An approach that opens up the question of how religious reform took place and challenges ecclesiological models that remains too focussed on structures in a manner artificial for pre-modern Europe…
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Considers the significance of the period from Constance to Trent (1414-1563), when several councils met to heal the Great Schism (1378) and reform the church. This book reflects on the…
The year 2017 marks the five-hundredth anniversary of the Reformation, if that event is dated from the posting of Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses. Admittedly, 2017 is an arbitrary and somewhat…
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Theologian, philosopher, canon lawyer, reformer, church statesman, and cardinal, Cusanus’ ideas of learned ignorance and the coincidence of opposites still attract attention today across a wide variety of disciplines. This…
