The Church in the Dark Ages, Volume 2 Gordon the commanding Stilicho—reassurances abound all

the commanding Stilicho—reassurances abound all the more

On the occasion of its original publication

A Retreat for Lay People

the emergence of that “perfect expression of a faith

only beginning formally in the late seventeenth century

The Church in the Dark Ages, Volume 2 Gordon the commanding Stilicho—reassurances abound allBy 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