In this historical Album, the author presents an anthropological history of the Church, which includes architecture, art, literature, history of the culture, in addition to the analysis of the pastoral and ecclesiastical policies considered in the relation to the civil power and the organization of society. The oeuvre is an innovative tool: starting from a solid historical and theological fundament, this Album manages to explore the role of liturgy in the post-conciliar Church in its ecumenical context, and in a post-modern world, more and more globalized and multicultural.
The Author: Keith F. Pecklers, S.J., is full professor of Liturgy at the Pontifical Gregorian University and professor of Liturgical History at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute of Rome’s Saint Anselm Pontifical Athenaeum. With the volume Liturgia (Queriniana, Brescia 2007), he won the Catholic Press Association’s First Place book award.