The Church of Apostles and Martyrs, Volume 1 Chesterton By Étienne Gilson

By Étienne Gilson

The result is an emptying of all theological content from religion

nothing of himself in it from first to last

a man of profound faith and a gifted wordsmith in the language of Christian belief

The Church of Apostles and Martyrs, Volume 1 Chesterton By Étienne GilsonBy Henri Daniel Rops The Church of Apostles and Martyrs is the first installment in Henri Daniel Rops magnificent and enormously popular History of the Church of Christ. Volume 1 includes the first six chapters of that work, surveying the first years of the Church until the destruction of Jerusalem in A. D. 70; the peerless contributions of St. Paul; the relations between imperial Rome and the fledgling Church; the persecutions and first martyrdoms;