ローマ・カトリック教会は今、岐路に立たされています。一方でカトリック教会は世界的なキリスト教の中で断トツに大きな教派であり続け、目覚ましい勢いで成長し続けています。しかし、聖職者による未成年者に対する性的虐待と、教会上層部がこれを隠蔽してきたという一連のスキャンダルに揺さぶられてもいます。10年に及ぶこの危機は、教会の財政に大打撃を与えましたが、内部のモラル、そして対外的な立場の双方に対する打撃はさらに甚大なものとなっています。
今日、教会には大きな残存勢力と将来に対する展望がありますが、同時に険しい内的・外的課題にも直面しています。「カトリシズムはどこへ行くのか」という問いは、信者にとっても、またそうでない人にとっても、極めて重要な公共的な意味を持っています。本書は教会の過去、現在、そして未来について、信頼の置けるわかりやすい概説を提供します。この補筆改訂版は、教皇ベネディクト16世の辞任、教皇フランシスコの選出、そして就任後の動きについての新しい章を追加しています。
New to this Edition:
Roman Catholicism stands at a crossroads, a classic ''best of times, worst of times'' moment. On the one hand, the Catholic Church remains by far the largest branch of the worldwide Christian family, and is growing at a remarkable clip. Yet the Church has also been rocked by a series of scandals related to the sexual abuse of minors by clergy, and, even more devastating, the cover-up by the Church hierarchy. The decade-long crisis has taken a massive financial toll, but the blow to both the internal morale and the external moral standing of the Church has been even steeper. Today, the Church has enormous residual strength and exciting future prospects, but also faces steep internal and external challenges. The question of ''whither Catholicism'' is of vital public relevance, for believers and non-believers alike. In The Catholic Church: What Everyone Needs to Know, John L. Allen, Jr., one of the world's leading authorities on the Vatican, offers an authoritative and accessible guide to the past, present, and future of the Church. This updated edition includes a new chapter on the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, the election of Pope Francis, and his extraordinary tenure thus far.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Catholic Church 101
2. Historical Highlights and Lowlights
3. The Church outside ''the Church''
4. The Life of the Mind
5. Worship
6. Angels, Demons, and Saints
7. Faith and Politics
8. Catholicism and Sex
9. Catholicism and Money
10. Crisis and Scandal
11. Rome and America
12. New Frontiers
13. Pope Francis
Recommended Reading
Index
Reviews of the previous edition
"An excellent handbook for those who want (or need) to know more about the Catholic Church and for those who think they already know it all." -- Publishers Weekly
"John Allen is the English-speaking world's most informed, most insightful and most balanced commentator on the Roman Catholic Church today."--America
''Paints a fair-minded picture of the Roman Catholic strain of the faith, its beliefs, its worship and its structures. [Allen] gets behind the image of stern Catholic uniformity and begins to show what a remarkably diverse body this really is.'' --Times Literary Supplement
"Allen's engaging writing keeps readers' attention and interest... Highly recommended." --CHOICE
"The best Anglophone Vatican reporter ever."--George Weigel, author of Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
"The journalist other reporters-and not a few cardinals-look to for the inside story on how all the pope's men direct the world's largest church."--Kenneth Woodward, Newsweek
"The most authoritative writer on Vatican affairs in the English language."--The Tablet
ISBN : 9780199379804
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