{"product_id":"the-church-of-the-classical-age-the-great-century-of-souls-volume-1","title":"The Church of the Classical Age: The Great Century of Souls, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Henri Daniel-Rops\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Church of the Classical Age: The Great Century of Souls\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the sixth installment in Henri Daniel-Rops’ grand \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Church of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e. This volume includes the first three chapters of that work, studying the heroic St. Vincent de Paul, whose charitable institutions and foundations for priests and religious opened wide the century’s doors to Christ; the “age of spiritual grandeur” (1600–1660), with its extensive litany of saints and immense outpouring of spirituality, the flourishing of the missions and of religious orders for women dedicated to charitable and educational work, and the sustained creativity of Christian art and music; and then the profound crises that beset Christian Europe—the Thirty Years War; the scandal of Christian disunity; the Treaties of Westphalia; the papacy versus rising absolutism—and the question they posed: Would this great century end in glory or ignominy?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to work the new leaven into the mass of the baptized—that was the task to which the Church devoted her energies from now onwards; her history during the great\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e“classical” age was that of a persevering effort to accomplish this work\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eof reanimating the very soul of the Christian people. \u003c\/i\u003e(H\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eenri Daniel-Rops)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eThe strange phrase, “Great Century of Souls,” captures perfectly the spirit of that epoch of saints and sinners. Vividly detailed and unfailingly interesting, \u003ci\u003eThe Church of the Classical Age: The Great Century of Souls \u003c\/i\u003eis the account \u003ci\u003epar excellence \u003c\/i\u003eof an age in which the Faith was the celebrated norm and the human soul the universally accepted seat of all ambition, passion, and achievement.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\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 style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 246pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685952679\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlso available:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #cc7722;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #cc7722;\" href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/the-church-of-the-classical-age-the-great-century-of-souls-volume-2\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Great Century of Souls, Volume 2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100040061295,"sku":"978-1685952679","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/Product191.jpg?v=1781124908","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/the-church-of-the-classical-age-the-great-century-of-souls-volume-1","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}