The celebrated French Academician, Henri Daniel-Rops, produces a towering, erudite study of the humble men and women who were Christ's very first followers. Historically rich, it captures everything from the occupations, families, and homes to the flowers and birds native to the land.

Daily Life in the Time of Jesus

Daniel-Rops, Henri

Biographies & Memoirs

Servant Pubns

The Church of Apostles and Martyrs is the first installment in Henri Daniel-Rops' magnificent and enormously popular History of the Church of Christ. This volume 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. 
An immersion into the infancy of the Church, The Church of Apostles and Martyrs offers 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."

The Church of Apostles and Martyrs, Volume 2

History

World

Cluny Media

The Church of Apostles and Martyrs, Volume 1

The Church of Apostles and Martyrs is the first installment in Henri Daniel-Rops’ magnificent and enormously popular History of the Church of Christ. This volume 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. 
An immersion into the infancy of the Church, The Church of Apostles and Martyrs offers 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.”

The Church of Apostles and Martyrs: Volume 1 (The History of the Church of Christ)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

The Church of Apostles and Martyrs is the first installment in Henri Daniel-Rops’ magnificent and enormously popular History of the Church of Christ. This volume 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. 
An immersion into the infancy of the Church, The Church of Apostles and Martyrs offers 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.”

The Church of Apostles and Martyrs: Volume 2 (The History of the Church of Christ)

The Church in the Dark Agesis the second installment in Henri Daniel-Rops’ monumental History of the Church of Christ. This volume includes the first five chapters of that work, studying St. Augustine of Hippo, whose genius governed Christendom 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 (especially in Ireland); 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 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.”

The Church in the Dark Ages: Volume 1 (The History of the Church of Christ)

Butler, Audrey

Cluny

The Church in the Dark Agesis the second installment in Henri Daniel-Rops’ monumental History of the Church of Christ. This volume includes the last five chapters of that work, surveying the threats to the Christian East, from the rise of Islam and onslaughts of jihad to the Iconoclastic Controversy, burgeoning heresy, and imminent schism; the greatness of Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance; the subsequent era of disorder in the West, counteracted by the first great medieval pope, St. Nicholas I; the Byzantine Revival, emergence of “Caesaro-Papism,” and conclusive Great Schism; and, lastly, the tragic dawn of the new millennium, whose light finds the Church inspired by a spirit of renewal, manifest in the monastic reforms of the Abbaye de Cluny. 
A magnificent presentation of six centuries 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.”

The Church in the Dark Ages: Volume 2 (The History of the Church of Christ)

The Church of Cathedral and Crusade: Volume 1 (The History of the Church of Christ)

Europe

The Church of Cathedral and Crusade: Volume 2 (The History of the Church of Christ)

The Church of Cathedral and Crusade, Volume 1

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