The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-1958
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 April 2016
- ISBN 9780198766155
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages562 pages
- Size 234x157x30 mm
- Weight 818 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book is an in-depth study of the papacy between 1914 and 1958, incorporating the latest research and including a discussion of the key related historiographical debates to date.
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The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-1958 examines the most momentous years in papal history. Popes Benedict XV (1914-1922), Pius XI (1922-1939), and Pius XII (1939-1958) faced the challenges of two world wars and the Cold War, and threats posed by totalitarian dictatorships like Italian Fascism, German National Socialism, and Communism in Russia and China. The wars imposed enormous strains upon the unity of Catholics and the hostility of the totalitarian regimes to Catholicism lead to the Church facing persecution and martyrdom on a scale similar to that experienced under the Roman Empire and following the French Revolution.
At the same time, these were years of growth, development, and success for the papacy. Benedict healed the wounds left by the 'modernist' witch hunt of his predecessor and re-established the papacy as an influence in international affairs through his peace diplomacy during the First World War. Pius XI resolved the 'Roman Question' with Italy and put papal finances on a sounder footing. He also helped reconcile the Catholic Church and science by establishing the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and took the first steps to move the Church away from entrenched anti-Semitism. Pius XI continued his predecessor's policy of the 'indigenisation' of the missionary churches in preparation for de-colonisation. Pius XII fully embraced the media and other means of publicity, and with his infallible promulgation of the Assumption in 1950, he took papal absolutism and centralism to such heights that he has been called the 'last real pope'. Ironically, he also prepared the way for the Second Vatican Council.
This book is a valuable overview of developments in the papacy in the first half of the twentieth century.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
'Useless Slaughter', Benedict XV and the First World War
Benedict XV, The Post-War World and the Church
Pius XI, Italian Fascism and the Coniliazione
Pius XI, The Teacher and his Church
The 'Foreign Policy' of Pius XI in the 1920s
Pius XI and the Dictators, 1930-1939
Pius XII, Peace Diplomacy and War
Pius XII, War and Fascist Genocides
Pius XII, Communism and the Cold War
'Angelic Pastor?' Pius XII and the World-wide Church
The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism
Glossary
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