An Age of Renewal

<p><strong>An Age of Renewal: The Catholic Reformation </strong>is the fifth installment in Henri Daniel-Rops' magnificent <em>History of the Church of Christ</em>. This volume continues the foray into the age of fanaticism during which Protestantism amassed victories in the Netherlands Scotland and Elizabethan England; offers a comprehensive account of <em>De Propaganda Fide</em> the amazing missionary efforts of such men as St. Francis Xavier Bartholomew de las Casas and Matteo Ricci; and lastly presents the fruits of reform's victories-the splendor of the new St. Peter's and the successes of the post-Tridentine popes; the great defenders of the faith Baronius and Bellarmine and the exuberance of the Baroque; and the freshly-minted treasures in mysticism and spirituality bequeathed by St. John of the Cross St. Teresa of Avila and St. Francis de Sales the living embodiment of an era the reward of three generations' hopes and prayers.</p><p><br></p><p>A brilliantly adroit account of the years 1500-1602 <em>An Age of Renewal: The Catholic Reformation</em> illuminates that period in which the Church-in the same heroic spirit of the Gregorian Cluniac or mendicant reforms-enacted the rediscovery of living Tradition an endeavor undertaken <em>for </em>God <em>for </em>Jesus Christ as a protestation of unwavering loyalty.</p>