{"product_id":"the-history-of-the-church-of-christ","title":"The History of the Church of Christ","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Henri Daniel-Rops\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(\u003cstrong\u003eNB:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Product contains twenty individual, paperback volumes. For special-order hardcover editions pricing and availability, please contact sales@clunymedia.com.\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHenri Daniel-Rops' monumental, ten-book \u003cstrong\u003eHistory of the Church of Christ\u003c\/strong\u003e spans the apostolic age to the opening of the Second Vatican Council. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook One (2 vols.)—The Church of Apostles and Martyrs\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eoffers an outstanding overview of the spread of the Gospel and the way of life of the first Christians in their original witness to the Good News. Indeed, what Daniel-Rops writes in reference to the Acts of the Apostles and its author might well be applied to himself and The Church of Apostles and Martyrs: “This book was not written with any intention of satisfying the curiosity of the future historian, but simply in order to exalt the faith. And yet, within the limits which it voluntarily sets itself, what an incomparable witness it is! No one who reads it can remain unmoved by it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Two (2 vols.)—The Church in the Dark Ages \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eis a magnificent presentation of six centuries of Church history that proves the aptness of the term \u003cem\u003eles temps barbares\u003c\/em\u003e. From 400 A.D. to 1050 A.D., the world endured—in Rops’ eloquent phrasing—“a night in which humanity seemed to be groping blindly amid the bloody confusion of today and the anguish of the morrow. Only the Church, guided by a transcendent ambition, pursued her course unwaveringly, and in working to her own supernatural ends she became the most effective means of ensuring the salvation of civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Three (2 vols.)—The Church of Cathedral and Crusade \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003epresents Christ­endom in “the springtime of its youth” in which it “built the cathedrals, compiled the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ebelieved\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBook Four (2 vols.)—\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eA Religious Revolution: The Protestant Reformation \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eis a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003esuperb presentation of the tumultuous years of 1350–1564,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebringing 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\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBook Five (2 vols.)—An Age of Renewal: The Catholic Reformation \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eis a brilliantly adroit account of the years 1500–1602,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eilluminating that period in which the Church—in the same heroic spirit of the Gregorian, Cluniac, or mendicant reforms—enacted “the rediscovery of living Tradition,” an endeavor “undertaken\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003efor\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eGod,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003efor\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eJesus Christ, as a protestation of unwavering loyalty.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Six (2 vols.)—The Church of the Classical Age: The Great Century of Souls \u003c\/strong\u003eis a \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003evividly detailed and unfailingly interesting account of 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\u003eThat strange phrase, “Great Century of Souls,” captures perfectly the spirit of that epoch of saints and sinners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Seven (2 vols.)—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Church of the Classical Age: The Era of Great Splintering \u003c\/strong\u003ewitnesses the eighteenth-century Church—and, indeed, the world—standing upon the knife’s edge; “stray but a little” and they would fail. Daniel-Rops chronicles the steps (and mis-steps) that brought the Church into the harsh light of the scaffold and reveals the grace which empowered her to “preserve her loyalties intact.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBook Eight (2 vols.)—The Church of the Revolutionary Age: Facing New Destinies \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003echronicles the epoch of 1789 to 1870, which had opened with the fratricidal fanfare of revolution and in which the Church faced a seemingly endless succession of perils. Presented in arresting detail and with dramatic flair by Daniel-Rops, the evidence 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\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBook Nine (2 vols.)—\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe Church of the Revolutionary Age: A Fight for God \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003esurveys a singularly unhappy age, alight with the blaze of revolution and war. The years 1870 to 1939 witnessed wave after wave of assault upon Christ and his Church. Lavish in detail, vigorous in analysis, and dramatic in telling, Daniel-Rops offers proof positive of Christ’s promise that the Church is built firmly upon rock, and the powers of death and gates of hell shall not prevail against it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Ten (2 vols.)—The Church of the Revolutionary Age: Christian Brotherhood \u003c\/strong\u003eexplores the complex phenomenon of the “separated brethren”—all those who believe in and follow Jesus Christ, but are not in communion with the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. Christ prayed that his followers may be one. Yet the history of his Church bears witness to the dreadful words of the Prophet Zechariah: “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.” With justice to his formidable and sensitive subject, Daniel-Rops gives an absorbing account of the successes and failures of the sheep to be no longer separated, but unified in faith. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100040651119,"sku":"4181516234202","price":559.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/ProductImages_HDRSET.jpg?v=1781124934","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/the-history-of-the-church-of-christ","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}