{"product_id":"the-church-of-cathedral-and-crusade-volume-1","title":"The Church of Cathedral and Crusade, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Henri Daniel-Rops\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Church of Cathedral and Crusade \u003c\/b\u003eis the third installment in Henri Daniel-Rops’ monumental \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Church of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e. This volume includes the first seven chapters of that work, surveying the salient characteristics of the period 1050 to 1350; the religious foundation of the age and its expressions in prayer and pilgrimage, liturgy and sacrament; the archetype of medieval manhood, St. Bernard of Clairvaux; the leavening labors of reform and renewal by Popes Gregory VII and Paschal II and Sts. Francis of Assisi and Dominic de Guzmán; the relationship between Church and State, popes and monarchs, and ecclesial and secular hierarchies; the governmental model of the medieval Church and its effects on the moral and material economies; and the tension between such Christian ideals as fidelity, humility, and charity (symbolized by St. Louis IX) and those all-too-human realities of impetuosity, vanity, and violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere is nothing gloomy about medieval culture; it radiates joy and a spirit of bold originality.… \u003c\/i\u003e“\u003ci\u003eI hold God made all for the best.…\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003ci\u003e There you have that tranquillity and sublime confidence which alone could have produced the cathedrals and crusades. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHenri Daniel-Rops)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSpectacular in scope and detail, \u003ci\u003eThe Church of Cathedral and Crusade \u003c\/i\u003epresents Christ­endom in “the springtime of its youth” in which it “built the cathedrals, compiled the \u003ci\u003esummae\u003c\/i\u003e, embarked on the crusades, spread and intensified the Gospel message; while the Church’s power reached heights hitherto unexplored, and she herself became the guide of human thought.” The cause of this incomparable creativity? Simply, on Daniel-Rops’ studied assessment, that “from the lowest to the highest, society \u003ci\u003ebelieved\u003c\/i\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 class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 394pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e978-1685952129\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-page--description font--paragraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"rte-content\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-js-loaded=\"true\" data-cart-form-position=\"left\" data-size-chart-option=\"size\" data-size-chart-enabled=\"true\" data-product-modal-enabled=\"true\" data-zoom-enabled=\"true\" data-magnify=\"1.7\" data-section-type=\"product_page\" data-section-id=\"product\" data-js-class=\"ProductPage\" class=\"product-page--root\"\u003e\n\u003carticle class=\"row\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Product\" itemscope=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-page--main-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-page--description font--paragraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"rte-content\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlso available: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #cc7722;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/the-church-of-cathedral-and-crusade-volume-2\" style=\"color: #cc7722;\"\u003eThe Church of Cathedral and Crusade, Volume 2 \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHardcover editions available for purchase \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eon Amazon.com: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #cc7722;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Church-Cathedral-Crusade-1\/dp\/168595216X\/\" style=\"color: #cc7722;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVolume 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #cc7722;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Church-Cathedral-Crusade-2\/dp\/1685952178\/\" style=\"color: #cc7722;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVolume 2\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"row social-share\"\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100036686191,"sku":"978-1685952129","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/Product173.jpg?v=1781124812","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/the-church-of-cathedral-and-crusade-volume-1","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}