The Church in the Dark Ages, Volume 2 Gordon In this first volume

In this first volume

a covenant of peace and fruitfulness

the adventures and agonies of missionary efforts to expand the Christian sheepfold

By Saint John Henry Newman

is similarly the fruit of the Divine largesse: God “could have done without [priests]

The Church in the Dark Ages, Volume 2 Gordon In this first volumeBy 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