2014/12/18 by S.J. Gerald O’Collins, S. J. Mario Farrugia · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
paper · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198728184.001.0001
openalex publication_date 2014/12/18 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
After two chapters on the rise and history of Catholic Christianity, the book explains systematically how the beliefs and practices of Catholicism came to be what they are. A chapter on revelation, tradition, and scripture introduces six chapters, which set out Catholic doctrines in the order in which they developed: the Trinity and the Incarnation; sin, the life of grace, and the promise of glory; the seven sacraments; the nature of the Church and its mission; and Catholic moral life and teaching. The book ends by drawing together major characteristics of Catholic Christianity and setting out some central challenges that the Catholic Church now faces. The central aim of the book is to present, with ecumenical sensitivity, the world’s oldest and largest institution, the Roman Catholic Church.