{"product_id":"a-religious-revolution-the-protestant-reformation-volume-1","title":"A Religious Revolution: The Protestant Reformation, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Henri Daniel-Rops\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Religious Revolution: The Protestant Reformation \u003c\/b\u003eis the fourth install­ment in Henri Daniel-Rops’ magnificent \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Church of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e. This volume includes the first four chapters of that work, examining the triple crisis in the Church—of authority, as the scandal of the antipopes leads to the Great Western Schism; of unity, as the Hundred Years War, the chaos of famine and plague, and the fall of Byzantium spell the disintegration of Christendom; and of spirit, as moral decay and intellectual decline find no effective remedy in erratic reforms—and the dazzling duality of the Renaissance: glorious genius of artistic, literary, and scientific achievement alongside exuberant sensuality verging upon debauchery. In this grand tapestry stand the figures of Sts. Catherine of Siena and Joan of Arc; John Wycliffe and John Huss; St. Colette and Savonarola; and the Renaissance popes: Nicholas V, Alexander VI, and Leo X.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis picture of an unedifying Papacy, a dubious hierarchy, and the faith threatened by evils of the worst kind would soon be replaced by one of a Church rejuvenated and renovated… But before this redemptive tremor could take effect a dramatic tragedy was to take place, whose prologue had just been enacted in a small German town… \u003c\/i\u003e(Henri Daniel-Rops)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eA superb presentation of the tumultuous years of 1350–1564, \u003ci\u003eA Religious Revolution: The Protestant Reformation \u003c\/i\u003ebrings to life an epoch in which “everything everywhere was chang­ing and falling apart; systems opposed systems, new dogmatisms clash with old; rigid formulae only half conceal uncertainty and anguish; the whole of human activity held increasingly fast in the grip of an indefinable kind of agonizing fermentation.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenri Daniel-Rops \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 \u003ci\u003eSacred History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJesus and His Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and the monumental, ten-volume \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Church of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e. He also served as editor for the \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\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 364pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e978-1685952341\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100037210479,"sku":"978-1685952341","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/Product180.jpg?v=1781124816","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/a-religious-revolution-the-protestant-reformation-volume-1","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}