How the Pope became infallible : Pius IX and the politics of persuasion /
In a moment of candor and humility, the late Pope Paul VI admitted that the papacy itself - and specifically the doctrine of papal infallibility, fought for so relentlessly by his predecessor, Pius IX - is one of the greatest obstacles to Christian reunion. How that doctrine went from being a minori...
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Garden City, N.Y. :
Doubleday,
1981
Garden City, N.Y. : 1981 Garden City, N.Y. : 1981 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. From rabbi Jesus to the infallible pope
- 2. Manipulating the infallibility debate
- 3. Pius IX
- 4. Vatican I: A free council?
- 5. The arguments for and against papal infallibility
- 6. The infallibility debate and the science of history
- 7. How the new dogma was passed
- 8. Social and religious repercussions
- 9. The ideogology of Vaitcan I
- 10. A hundred years after the death of Pius IX