The Church of the Revolutionary Age: A Fight for God

By Henri Daniel-Rops (NB: Product contains two individual volumes.) The Church of the Revolutionary Age: A Fight for God is the ninth install­ment in Henri Daniel-Rops’ outstanding History of the Church of Christ. 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 gives 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. Volume 1 surveys (1) the dismal spiritual atmosphere produced in large part by Nietzsche and Marx, and the irreligious and totalitarian menaces to which it gave rise; (2) the life of the Church in this violent new age, and the four great popes who led the charge to combat its evils and its errors: Leo XIII, Pius X, Benedict XV, and Pius XI; (3) the papacy of Leo XIII, “the Pope of bold optio