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Recommendations for Papal and/or Vatican History
Posted on 8/5/24 at 11:00 pm
Posted on 8/5/24 at 11:00 pm
Looking for recommendations for non-fiction history primarily or historical fiction novels on the Papacy and/or the Vatican.
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Posted on 8/6/24 at 1:45 pm to swampgrizzly
It is a broad and rich topic.
If you want the best, modern, "inside the tent" take on various aspects of the church/papacy history, John O'Malley's books will give you a lot to work with, keeping in mind that is the Jesuit, albeit modern Jesuit, take on the history. I think he wrote 15 to 20 books on various aspects of church history. Unsurprisingly, he has a couple of books on the Jesuits and tends to focus on the period from Trent (so the Renaissance) to the present day (even more particularly Vatican I and Vatican II), but to tell you these stories, he generally gives backgrounds. He has a summary history of the popes going back to Peter.
Eamon Duffy's Saints and Sinners is very well received and relatively up to date (2015), but I haven't read it yet.
If you want the best, modern, "inside the tent" take on various aspects of the church/papacy history, John O'Malley's books will give you a lot to work with, keeping in mind that is the Jesuit, albeit modern Jesuit, take on the history. I think he wrote 15 to 20 books on various aspects of church history. Unsurprisingly, he has a couple of books on the Jesuits and tends to focus on the period from Trent (so the Renaissance) to the present day (even more particularly Vatican I and Vatican II), but to tell you these stories, he generally gives backgrounds. He has a summary history of the popes going back to Peter.
Eamon Duffy's Saints and Sinners is very well received and relatively up to date (2015), but I haven't read it yet.
Posted on 8/6/24 at 3:30 pm to swampgrizzly
If you find a good, all-encompassing work on the history of the papacy/Vatican please let me know. In the meantime, while it isn't a papal or Vatican history series per say, Warren H. Carroll's six-volume series A History of Christendom does a fairly solid job of covering major aspects of papal history. The books are as follows:
The Founding of Christendom (Creation-324)
The Building of Christendom (324-1100)
The Glory of Christendom (1100-1517)
The Cleaving of Christendom (1517-1661)
The Revolution Against Christendom (1661-1815)
The Crisis of Christendom (1815-2005)
The Founding of Christendom (Creation-324)
The Building of Christendom (324-1100)
The Glory of Christendom (1100-1517)
The Cleaving of Christendom (1517-1661)
The Revolution Against Christendom (1661-1815)
The Crisis of Christendom (1815-2005)
Posted on 8/6/24 at 4:35 pm to swampgrizzly
Reclaiming Catholic History is a good series. It's less dense than the series recommended in the post above mine.
On the Papacy specifically, The Early Church was the Catholic Church and Pope Peter (my favorite apologetic work of all time) by Joe Heschmeyer are great books with a ton of primary sources.
The Early Papacy by Adrian Fortescue covers from Peter up to the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD.
Documents Illustrating Papal Authority by Giles is great. It covers from Peter up to 454 AD, but is out of print and expensive. Worth it though IMO.
A tome of a book, but one that leaves no stone unturned is The Papacy by Erick Ybarra. Dr. Scott Hahn, one of the better known Catholic theologians alive today (formerly a Presbyterian) put this book through the ringer via peer reviews from the most highly regarded Catholic theologians and historians on the planet, and it came out virtually unscathed. Dr. Hahn published it through his own publishing company.
Rodney Stark has some great books which debunk alot of Protestant claims, particularly surrounding the Crusades and Reformation era, and with primary sources.
On the Papacy specifically, The Early Church was the Catholic Church and Pope Peter (my favorite apologetic work of all time) by Joe Heschmeyer are great books with a ton of primary sources.
The Early Papacy by Adrian Fortescue covers from Peter up to the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD.
Documents Illustrating Papal Authority by Giles is great. It covers from Peter up to 454 AD, but is out of print and expensive. Worth it though IMO.
A tome of a book, but one that leaves no stone unturned is The Papacy by Erick Ybarra. Dr. Scott Hahn, one of the better known Catholic theologians alive today (formerly a Presbyterian) put this book through the ringer via peer reviews from the most highly regarded Catholic theologians and historians on the planet, and it came out virtually unscathed. Dr. Hahn published it through his own publishing company.
Rodney Stark has some great books which debunk alot of Protestant claims, particularly surrounding the Crusades and Reformation era, and with primary sources.
This post was edited on 8/6/24 at 5:35 pm
Posted on 8/10/24 at 6:34 pm to swampgrizzly
I have the Great Courses series The Catholic Church: A History on CD. 16+ hours of lectures. Let me know if you want them.
https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-catholic-church-a-history
https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-catholic-church-a-history
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