Rome Reshaped

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  • Rome Reshaped Book Detail

  • Author : Desmond O'Grady
  • Release Date : 1999
  • Publisher : Burns & Oates
  • Genre : Religion
  • Pages : 232
  • ISBN 13 :
  • File Size : 89,89 MB
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Rome Reshaped by Desmond O'Grady PDF Summary

Book Description: The year 2000 is the first Jubilee, or Holy Year, to coincide with a millennium, and it is expected to inspire the world's largest-ever pilgrimage, bringing some thirty million visitors to Rome. What might these contemporary pilgrims expect to find other than the world's largest-ever traffic jam? In this wise and often witty book, longtime Vatican-observer Desmond O'Grady has written a fascinating history of Rome and the papacy seen through the grid of the twenty-five Jubilees that have occurred since the practice was initiated seven hundred years ago. During each Jubilee Year the Holy See has asserted its centrality, its universal relevance, and responded to various challenges: the Islamic threat, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the loss of the Papal States. The story of the Jubilees is told by means of the following coordinates: the state of the city and of the church at the time, the most memorable episodes, and the reactions of the pilgrims, many of them kings, queens and emperors. These 'liminal', or threshold, moments find the church often at its best and its worst. The final chapter analyzes the announced goals and prospects for Jubilee 2000 and explains how the church hopes to ferry humankind into the third millennium with a new sense of history as a meaningful journey. Book jacket.

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