Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy (Hardcover) by Roger Collins

from ShanLizLuv

Good Read. Well written and easy to read. By no means a complete history (obviously impossible in one volume) but it doesn't try to be. The first few chapters are more honest than most, acknowledging facts like...There was no such office as "bishop" in the first few centuries. However, it doesn't...

from Schmerguls

4559. Keepers of the Keys A History of the Papacy, by Roger Collins (read 16 Apr 2009) This tells the story pretty straightforwardly, with no undue ideological bias. He is probably overly dismissive of the early Popes, being unwilling to to give the fragmentary records on them as much credence as...

from Schmerguls

4559. Keepers of the Keys A History of the Papacy, by Roger Collins (read 16 Apr 2009) This tells the story pretty straightforwardly, with no undue ideological bias. He is probably overly dismissive of the early Popes, being unwilling to to give the fragmentary records on them as much credence as...