Ecclesia Militans: The Church in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and with him a priest

and with him a priest named Lawrence

Cahill examines how certain currents of modern thought have diverged from the vision of social order grounded in Christian revelation

he demonstrates how civilization’s greatest achievements—architecture

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while the surrounding political and ecclesial context is sketched with care

Ecclesia Militans: The Church in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and with him a priestThis volume presents a clear and faithful Catholic account of the great changes that swept through the Church and the world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Beginning with the early causes of the Protestant revolt, it traces the rise of Lutheranism, the spread of heresy in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, and the long wars that followed across the Christian world. The chapters follow the Churchs firm and supernatural response: the