The Church of Cathedral and Crusade Volume 2

<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 last seven chapters of that work surveying the rise of the universities and triumph of scholasticism in Sts. Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas; the emergence of that perfect expression of a faith the cathedral; the callings conflicts and controversies of the Crusades; the ascent to glory and decline into schism in the Christian East; the adventures and agonies of missionary efforts to expand the Christian sheepfold; the heretical rendings in the fabric of Christianity by Manicheanism and Albigensianism; and the tumultuous at times outrageous closing of the age at which the Church yet speaks the last word-above the indignity of antipopes and the putrefying horror of the Black Death rises another glorious witness to the living Word: Dante Aligheri and the <em>Divine Comedy</em>.</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>