Ecclesia Militans: The Church in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries It is from those obsidian

It is from those obsidian screens that very Hades doth then stream relentlessly into many lost souls

the history of European thought

By the book’s end

Etienne Binet

a work sure to stimulate admiration

Ecclesia Militans: The Church in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries It is from those obsidianThis 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