Research Catalog

Title

New Catholic encyclopedia : jubilee volume, the Wojtyła years.

Publication

Detroit, MI : Gale Group in association with the Catholic University of America, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Gale Group.
• Catholic University of America

Description

xiii, 681 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Summary

Focuses on the pontificate of John Paul II and includes thematic essays that present the man and his work in such headings as: The Papacy of John Paul II, Church Documents, People and Places, Institutions and Events, Saints and Blessed.

Subject

• Jean-Paul II, pape, 1920-
• Catholic Church > Encyclopedias
• 1900-1999
• Christian saints > Dictionaries

Genre/Form

Encyclopedias

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Editorial advisory board -- Editorial staff -- Foreword -- Preface -- pt. 1. From the Poland of Karol Wojtyła to the world of John Paul II -- thematic essays -- Introduction -- The church, the collapse of communism, and the challenge of new democracies -- Karol Wojtyła : poet, playwright, philosopher, and patriot -- The personalist philosophy of Karol Wojtyła -- God in the world : a trinitarian triptych -- John Paul II's economic teaching : a call for spiritual, moral, and structural conversion -- From Rome to Cairo and Beijing : John Paul II on family and human rights -- The legacy of Vatican II in the pontificate of John Paul II -- Ut unum sint : John Paul II's ecumenical commitment -- John Paul II and interreligious dialogue -- A pilgrimage of reconciliation : from Wadowice to the Wailing Wall -- The church in dialogue with science : the Wojtyła years -- The universal call to holiness : martyrs of charity and witnesses to truth -- pt. 2. John Paul II and his pontificate -- The life of Pope John Paul II : a chronicle -- The Synod of Bishops -- Magisterial documents -- People and places, institutions and events -- Cloud of witnesses : saints and beati -- Appendix. Patron saints -- Contributors -- Index.

ISBN

078764787X (hardcover)

LCCN

^^^00060991^

OCLC

• 44720603
• SCSB-10387202

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library