The Church in the Dark Ages, Volume 1 by Henri Daniel-Rops

The Church in the Dark Ages, Volume 1 by Henri Daniel-Rops

The Church in the Dark Ages>is the second installment in Henri Daniel-Rops' monumental>History of the Church of Christ. This volume includes the first five chapters of that work, skillfully studying St. Augustine of Hippo, whose genius governed Christ-endom for centuries; the Great Invasions of the Barbarians and their conversion under the great popes, Gregory and Leo; the sanctifying influence of such saints as John Chrysostom, Patrick, and Boniface, and the scholars and missionaries of East and West; the grandiosity of Byzantium and its most illustrious leaders, Justinian and Theodora; and Christianity's descent into the night of barbarism and the heroic efforts of St. Benedict and the monastic expansion which sought to draw it from those dark depths.
A magnificent presentation of six centuries' worth of Church history, The Church in the Dark Ages>proves the aptness of the term>les temps barbares. 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.

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ISBN 13	9781950970926
Title	The Church in the Dark Ages, Volume 1
Author	Henri Daniel Rops
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Publisher	Cluny Media
Year published	2023-04-03
Number of pages	398
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