Ecclesia Militans: The Church in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Ecclesia Militans: The Church in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesThis volume presents a clear and faithful Catholic account of the great changes that swept through the Church and the world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Beginning with the early causes of the Protestant revolt, it traces the rise of Lutheranism, the spread of heresy in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, and the long wars that followed across the Christian world. The chapters follow the Churchs firm and supernatural response: the

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Charles Maignen's influential work La souveraineté du peuple est une hérésie (The Sovereignty of the People Is a Heresy) is now available in English

Francis Xavier among them—whose courage and holiness gave new strength to the Church in a time of confusion

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