The Church of Apostles and Martyrs

By Henri Daniel-Rops (NB: Product contains two individual volumes.) The Church of Apostles and Martyrs is the first installment in Henri Daniel-Rops’ magnificent and enormously popular History of the Church of Christ. Volume 1 includes the first six chapters of that work, surveying the first years of the Church until the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70; the peerless contributions of St. Paul; the relations between imperial Rome and the fledgling Church; the persecutions and first martyrdoms; the catacombs and development of the liturgy; and the genesis of properly Christian literature. Volume 2 includes chapters seven through twelve of that work, continuing the survey of the fertilizing effects of the martyrs on the early Church, followed by examinations of the emergence of the Church as a social power; the age of Constantine; the advent of heresy and defense of orthodoxy; and the triumph of the Cross as Christianity becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire. The Church kn