{"product_id":"the-church-of-the-revolutionary-age-a-fight-for-god-volume-2","title":"The Church of the Revolutionary Age: A Fight for God: Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Henri Daniel-Rops\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Church of the Revolutionary Age: A Fight for G\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eod\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis the ninth install­ment in Henri Daniel-Rops’ outstanding\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistory of the Church of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e. This volume surveys\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(1) the crisis of Modernism, “the crossroad of all heresies”; (2) the outbreak of the Great War and Pope Benedict XV’s fight against the flames which laid unprecedented spiritual and material waste; (3) the continued success of Catholic social teaching and the rise of Catholic Action in the years after World War I, crowned by Pius XI’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuadragesimo anno\u003c\/i\u003e; (4) the papacy of Pius XI, “\u003ci\u003edefensor fidei et hominis\u003c\/i\u003e,” who rose to the unique and terrible challenge of confronting Communism, Facism, and Nazism; (5) the Church’s missionary work in the Americas, the East, and Africa, with portraits of the exemplary Damien of Molokai and Charles de Foucauld; and (6) the story of a soul, Thérèse of Lisieux,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ele petit modèle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efor the soldiers of Christ to fight the good fight.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWould the world, by changing its foundations, get rid of God?\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(Henri Daniel-Rops)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA singularly unhappy age, alight with the blaze of revolution and war, the years 1870 to 1939 witnessed wave after wave of assault upon Christ and his Church. Lavish in detail, vigorous in analysis, and dramatic in telling, Daniel-Rops’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Church of the Revolutionary Age: A Fight for God\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis proof positive of Christ’s promise that the Church is built firmly upon rock, and the powers of death and gates of hell shall not prevail against it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenri Daniel-Rops\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(1901–1965), the nom de plume of Henri Petiot, was a French Catholic historian. His bibliography comprises seventy books—written over a span of just thirty years—and includes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSacred History\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJesus and His Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and the monumental, ten-volume\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistory of the Church of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e. He also served as editor for the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwentieth Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism\u003c\/i\u003e, which consisted of one hundred and fifty volumes. Phenomenally successful in his own time, Daniel-Rops made religious history accessible and popular; in 1955, he was elected to the Académie française and in 1956 he received the Order of St. Gregory from Pope Pius XII.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e312pp.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53398842409287,"sku":"978 1685953195","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/7637\/6006\/files\/Product212_d632609f-f6b2-415c-b2df-3b7cd6f971c9.jpg?v=1771952559","url":"https:\/\/cenaclepress.com\/en-de\/products\/the-church-of-the-revolutionary-age-a-fight-for-god-volume-2","provider":"The Cenacle Press at Silverstream Priory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}