Dictionary Of Popes And The Papacy
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Dictionary of Popes and the Papacy
Author: Bruno Steimer
language: en
Publisher: Encyclopedia of Theology and C
Release Date: 2001
This first installment of the Encyclopedia of Theology and Church is the best one-volume reference work on the popes and the papacy. Part one covers every pope and antipope; part two discusses the institution of the Vatican and the papacy.
The Oxford Dictionary of Popes
Author: John Norman Davidson Kelly
language: en
Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
Release Date: 1986
The papacy is the oldest of all Western institutions with an unbroken existence over almost 2,000 years. In this unique reference, J.N.D. Kelly provides a concise entry on each pope, chronologically arranged so that the book reads as a continuous history of the papacy. He covers not only all the officially recognized popes from St. Peter to John Paul II but also their irregularly elected rivals, the so-called antipopes.
Lives of the Popes
Reviewing 262 Popes - provides historical and theological contexts for each profile. He groups his entries into 8 historical periods, his approach is down to earth and critical.