The Church of Cathedral and Crusade Volume 1

<p><strong>The Church of Cathedral and Crusade </strong>is the third installment in Henri Daniel-Rops' monumental <em>History of the Church of Christ</em>. This volume includes the first seven chapters of that work surveying the salient characteristics of the period 1050 to 1350; the religious foundation of the age and its expressions in prayer and pilgrimage liturgy and sacrament; the archetype of medieval manhood St. Bernard of Clairvaux; the leavening labors of reform and renewal by Popes Gregory VII and Paschal II and Sts. Francis of Assisi and Dominic de Guzman; the relationship between Church and State popes and monarchs and ecclesial and secular hierarchies; the governmental model of the medieval Church and its effects on the moral and material economies; and the tension between such Christian ideals as fidelity humility and charity (symbolized by St. Louis IX) and those all-too-human realities of impetuosity vanity and violence.</p><p></p><p>Spectacular in scope and detail <em>The Church of Cathedral and Crusade </em>presents Christ��endom in the springtime of its youth in which it built the cathedrals compiled the <em>summae</em> embarked on the crusades spread and intensified the Gospel message; while the Church's power reached heights hitherto unexplored and she herself became the guide of human thought. The cause of this incomparable creativity? Simply on Daniel-Rops' studied assessment that from the lowest to the highest society <em>believed</em>.</p>