The Church in the Dark Ages, Volume 2 Children's Literature in the Church

in the Church

even as they await in hope the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven

Emphatically practical in purpose

” The Meddlesome Friar and the Wayward Pope integrates the various extant histories of its subjects into a fascinating interpretation of an extraordinary period of history

and mystical dimensions

The Church in the Dark Ages, Volume 2 Children's Literature in the ChurchBy 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 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