The Church of Apostles and Martyrs, Volume 1 Caryll Houselander the sheer breadth of her

the sheer breadth of her sufferings

their penchant for more clearly apprehending particulars than universals led to the squandering of that inheritance in an experiment of sweeping reform

who knows Death is soon to claim him

the volume presents twelve essays on such topics as the imagination and its functions

His works in English include Homo Ludens and Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

The Church of Apostles and Martyrs, Volume 1 Caryll Houselander the sheer breadth of herBy 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;