Roman Catholic Beliefs in England Hornsby-Smith Paperback 9780521093279

Roman Catholic Beliefs in EnglandCustomary Catholicism and Transformations of Religious Authority\nAuthor(s): Michael P. Hornsby-Smith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521093279, 978-0521093279\nSynopsis\nThis 1991 book makes available an empirical study of the transformations in religious beliefs that have occurred amongst English Catholics. It complements Dr Hornsby-Smith's well received Roman Catholics in England [tel] which provides the social and historical context for this present study. In Roman Catholic beliefs in England, Michael Hornsby-Smith explores Catholic beliefs over a range of concerns from doctrinal matters to questions of personal and social morality and assesses how religious beliefs are differentiated between different types of Catholics. He also examines the legitimacy accorded by English Catholics to both papal authority and religious authority in general.