カトリック信仰の学術的研究を包括的に見わたす好評ハンドブックの17年ぶりの新版。章立て、執筆者を大幅に刷新し、改訂増補。神学と政治、環境主義、聖職者の児童虐待といった現代的なテーマを扱う。Now in its second edition, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism is fully updated to include recent developments in the study of Catholicism. Extensively revised and expanded chapters, many of which written by new authors, address contemporary issues such as theology and politics, environmentalism, and the clerical sexual abuse crisis. Entirely new chapters cover the early modern Church, the Bible in Catholic theology, the Eastern Catholic churches, liturgy, care for creation, the consecrated life, challenges for the Catholic Church, and more.