{"product_id":"the-church-of-the-revolutionary-age-facing-new-destinies-volume-2","title":"The Church of the Revolutionary Age: Facing New Destinies, Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Henri Daniel-Rops\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Church of the Revolutionary Age: Facing New Destinies \u003c\/b\u003eis the eighth installment in Henri Daniel-Rops’ \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Church of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e. This volume focuses on major events in personality, intellectual history, and evangelization: (1) The great ponti­ficate of Pius IX, contrasting total temporal defeat (loss of the Papal States) with spiritual triumph—the rebuke of modern errors, the dogma of the Immaculate Con­ception, and the convocation of the First Vatican Council. (2) The rise of irreligion in the form of scientific rationalism, its assaults on the Church’s basic teachings about the human person and release of new “gospels” like evolutionism and socialism. (3) The fruitful renewal of missionary efforts in North America, Asia, and Africa. (4) The “world that Christ makes visible”—the Church as the instrument of sanctification for history, and saints such as the Curé d’Ars, Newman, and John Bosco as assurances (among others) of that fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere is a widespread belief that the nineteenth century was the age of \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGod’s agony.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf it be true that Christianity then was subjected to one of the fiercest assaults in her\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003elong history, it is also true that she enjoyed a period of exceptional vitality and fulfilment. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e(Henri Daniel-Rops)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe epoch of 1789 to 1870, which had opened with the fratricidal fanfare of revolution, saw the Church face a seemingly endless succession of perils. Presented in arresting detail and with dramatic flair by Daniel-Rops, the evidence of \u003ci\u003eThe Church of the Revolutionary Age: Facing New Destinies\u003c\/i\u003e proves that those dangerous afflictions were “as pruning is to a tree.” And thus pruned, “the Church in an age of revolution became a Church of sanctity.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\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 324pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685953003\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100039537007,"sku":"978-1685953003","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/Product205.jpg?v=1781124880","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/the-church-of-the-revolutionary-age-facing-new-destinies-volume-2","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}