George Weigel
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Description
ix, 322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Throughout much of the 19th century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph of modernity would not only finish the Church as a consequential player in world history; it would also lead to the death of religious conviction. But today, the Catholic Church is far more vital and consequential than it was 150 years ago.
7) The end and the beginning: Pope John Paul II : the victory of freedom, the last years, the legacy
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Description
xiv, 590 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
141 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The Catholic Church is on the verge of a transition of great consequence. As Catholic theologian, historian, and papal biographer George Weigel notes, the next pope will probably have been a teenager or a very young man during the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965); he may even have been a child during those years. Thus the next pope will not have been shaped by the experience of the Council and the immediate debates over its meaning and reception...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When John Paul II lapsed into illness for the last time, people flocked from all over the world to pray. He had become a father figure to millions, who now felt orphaned. After more than 26 years of his guidance, the Catholic Church is entering a new age, with its bedrock traditions intact but with pressing questions to address in a rapidly changing world. Beginning with the story of John Paul's final months, this book offers an inside account of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Description
x, 409 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Theologian and papal biographer George Weigel, art historian Elizabeth Lev, and photographer Stephen Weigel explore the annual Lenten pilgrimage to dozens of Rome's most striking churches, which for many faithful is a sacred tradition dating back almost two millennia, to the earliest days of Christianity. Along this historic spiritual pathway, today's pilgrims confront the mysteries of the Christian faith through a program of biblical and early Christian...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Description
viii, 291 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The curtain is rising on the Evangelical Catholicism of the third millennium. The Gospel-centered Evangelical Catholicism of the future will send all the people of the Church into mission territory every day, and Weigel proposes a deepening of faith-based and mission-driven Catholic reform that touches every facet of Catholic life. Mediocrity is not an option, and all Catholics, no matter what their station in life, are called to live the evangelical...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
195 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
This manifesto urges all Americans to recognize and confront the religious convictions and passions that fuel Islamic jihadism, to understand its theological sources and ideological roots, and to take its global vision of the human future with the seriousness this challenge requires. The book offers fifteen prescriptions for meeting the threat of jihadist terrorism. On the far side is the brighter prospect of a world capable of genuine pluralism:...
