{"product_id":"the-church-of-the-classical-age-the-great-century-of-souls-volume-2","title":"The Church of the Classical Age: The Great Century of Souls, Volume 2","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Henri Daniel-Rops\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\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 last three chapters of that work, studying the reign of King Louis XIV as illustrative of the age’s contradictions and the spiritual genius that triumphed over turmoil by its foundations in the Cross; the reality of \u003ci\u003eChristian Classicism\u003c\/i\u003e, which sustained both order and ardor, witnessed the rise of geniuses like St. Louis de Montfort, St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, and J.-B. Bossuet, and secured a rich yield of sacred art; and the rise of Jansenism, Quietism, and their cast of audacious characters, including the Abbot of Saint-Cyran and the Abbess of Port-Royal, Madame Guyon and François Fénelon, and others. Yet even these crises “of sanctifying grace and pure love,” signaled the endurance of spiritual liberty—and thus do they serve as signs of the Church’s survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“classical” age was that of a persevering effort to accomplish this work \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof reanimating the very soul of the Christian people.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(H\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eenri Daniel-Rops)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe strange phrase, “Great Century of Souls,” captures perfectly the spirit of that epoch of saints and sinners. Vividly detailed and unfailingly interesting,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Church of the Classical Age: The Great Century of Souls\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis the account\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epar excellence\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHenri Daniel-Rops\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSacred History\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJesus and His Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and the monumental, ten-volume\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHistory of the Church of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e. He also served as editor for the\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 324\u003c\/span\u003epp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685952686\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlso available:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #cc7722;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/the-church-of-the-classical-age-the-great-century-of-souls-volume-1\" style=\"color: #cc7722;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Great Century of Souls, Volume 1\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/the-church-of-the-classical-age-the-great-century-of-souls-volume-2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/the-church-of-the-classical-age-the-great-century-of-souls-volume-2\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100038816111,"sku":"978-1685952686","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/Product192.jpg?v=1781124874","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/the-church-of-the-classical-age-the-great-century-of-souls-volume-2","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}