A Religious Revolution

<p><strong>A Religious Revolution: The Protestant Reformation </strong>is the fourth installment in Henri Daniel-Rops' magnificent <em>History of the Church of Christ</em>. This volume includes the first four chapters of that work examining the triple crisis in the Church-of authority as the scandal of the antipopes leads to the Great Western Schism; of unity as the Hundred Years War the chaos of famine and plague and the fall of Byzantium spell the disintegration of Christendom; and of spirit as moral decay and intellectual decline find no effective remedy in erratic reforms-and the dazzling duality of the Renaissance: glorious genius of artistic literary and scientific achievement alongside exuberant sensuality verging upon debauchery. In this grand tapestry stand the figures of Sts. Catherine of Siena and Joan of Arc; John Wycliffe and John Huss; St. Colette and Savonarola; and the Renaissance popes: Nicholas V Alexander VI and Leo X.</p><p><br></p><p>A superb presentation of the tumultuous years of 1350-1564 <em>A Religious Revolution: The Protestant Reformation </em>brings to life an epoch in which everything everywhere was changing and falling apart; systems opposed systems new dogmatisms clash with old; rigid formulae only half conceal uncertainty and anguish; the whole of human activity held increasingly fast in the grip of an indefinable kind of agonizing fermentation.</p>