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Catholic Modern : The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church by James Chappel is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
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In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state. According to the Catholic view, modern concepts like these, unleashed by the French Revolution, had been a disaster. Yet by the 1960s, those positions were reversed. How did this happen? Why, and when, did the worldÕs largest religious organization become modern? James Chappel finds an answer in the shattering experiences of the 1930s. Faced with the rise of Nazism and Communism, European
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- Author
- James Chappel
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674972100
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Christian, World History, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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