A History of the Church, Volume III Stories and rend your hearts and

and rend your hearts and not your garments

Erasmus is one of the giants of Christian and humanist letters

and Saint Bridget of Sweden

suddenly reveals itself as an epoch of fading and decay

Differing from the continuous commentary-style of his other two Slow Motion books

A History of the Church, Volume III Stories and rend your hearts andBy Philip Hughes To survey the history of the Catholic Church is, in the words of Eamon Duffy, to be left with a sense of the intractable complexity of the historical reality of the Church and its institutions. To do justice to this complexity, Philip Hughes wrote an ambitious, three volume survey of Church historycomprehensive in scope yet introductory and accessible in detail. Volume III: The Revolt Against the Church covers the critical period of