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Popes and the Papacy [videorecording (DVD)] : a history.

by Noble, Thomas F. X.

Teaching Co., 2006.

Papacy -- History.

Popes -- Biography.

Great courses (DVD). Religion.

Great courses (DVD)

Alternate title:

Great Courses. Popes and the Papacy [videorecording (DVD)] : a history

[videorecording (DVD)] :

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (158 p. ; 19 cm.)

"24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.

Course No. 6672.

Disc 1. What is Papal history? When did it begin? -- The rise of the Petrine idea -- Popes, Byzantines, and Barbarians -- The Popes in the Age of Charlemagne -- Rome, the Popes, and the Papal government -- The "Age of Iron"-- Disc 2. The Investiture controversy -- The Papal monarchy -- Institutions -- The Papal Monarchy -- Politics -- The Popes at Avignon -- The Great Schism -- The Renaissance Papacy -- politics -- Disc 3. The Renaissance Papacy -- culture -- The challenge of reform -- Protestantism -- Catholic reform and counter reform -- Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution -- Piux IX--Prisoner of the Vatican -- The challenge of Modernism -- Disc 4. The troubled Pontificate of Pius XII -- The age of Vatican II -- The transitional Pontificat of Paul VI -- The Vatican and what it does -- John Paul II -- "The Great"? -- Benedict XVI, the futrue, and the past.

Taught by : Thomas F.X. Noble, Uniteristy of Nortre Dame.

The papacy is the oldest continuously functioning institution in the world. To put that fact into perspective, consider that when George Washington was elected our nation's first president, the 250th pope was already reigning. More than one billion Roman Catholics throughout the world look to the pope each day for guidance and leadership. Yet in spite of the breadth of any pope's influence on the world stage, influence that has not only religious, but geopolitical, legal, social, artistic, and cultural repercussions unequalled by any other individual, how many of us really understand this most venerable of the world's institutions? What is the idea behind the "Petrine Office" the idea that answers the question, "Why is there a pope?" How are popes chosen? What kinds of men have been included among the 265 who have borne the title?

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