The Church of Apostles and Martyrs, Volume 2

By Henri Daniel-Rops 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 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 knows full well how to adapt herself to the circumstances around her, to make the conditions of time and place serve her own ends, to be prudent in her audacity and gently persuasive even in the breaches that she causes, never once losing sight of her sole object, namely the establishment of the Kingdom of God. (Henri Daniel-Rops) An immersion into the infancy of the Church, The Church of Apostles and Martyrs offers an out