The "modern age" in this course's title is modern in the historical sense. While he eventually gets to the present, Professor Madden begins his fourteen-lecture series about four hundred years ago. He examines the church as a social and political institution, usually by discussing an individual social movement and how the church responded to it. Lecture 3, for example, shows how the church adapted to the age of the absolute monarch. While the lectures are all well organized, most of the earlier lectures are delivered with little emotional involvement. It's only in the last few lectures, when he's discussing modern events and figures like Vatican II and John Paul II, that Madden seems to connect emotionally with his subject matter. G.T.B. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
The Catholic Church in the Modern Age
In the nearly two thousand years since its founding, the Catholic Church has provided a spiritual home for billions of followers. Renowned professor Thomas F. Madden leads listeners through the events that have helped create the modern church from the Renaissance period to the twenty-first century. Along the way, the audience will learn about the people who influenced and guided the church-priests and saints, laymen and popes-through some of its most difficult times and in some of its most glorious moments.
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The Catholic Church in the Modern Age
In the nearly two thousand years since its founding, the Catholic Church has provided a spiritual home for billions of followers. Renowned professor Thomas F. Madden leads listeners through the events that have helped create the modern church from the Renaissance period to the twenty-first century. Along the way, the audience will learn about the people who influenced and guided the church-priests and saints, laymen and popes-through some of its most difficult times and in some of its most glorious moments.
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| BN ID: | 2940172966057 |
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| Publisher: | Recorded Books, LLC |
| Publication date: | 10/03/2008 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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