Ecclesia Militans: The Church in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries a work sure to stimulate

a work sure to stimulate admiration

This new edition clarifies from the outset what the original once implied

the diabolical and the horrendous

By the book’s end

Ecclesia Militans: The Church in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries a work sure to stimulateThis 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