Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church

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Hilaire Belloc. Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church

Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church

Table of Contents

(i) The Biblical Attack

(ii) Materialism

(iii) The "Wealth and Power" Argument

(iv) The Historical Argument

(v) Scientific Negation

Footnotes

(i) Nationalism

(ii) Anti-Clericalism

(iii) The Modern Mind

Footnotes

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Hilaire Belloc

Published by Good Press, 2021

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(i) There is, most prominent, what I will call the "Main Opposition" of the moment. Thus in the fourth and fifth centuries Arianism filled the sky. The Faith seemed in peril of death no longer from official and heathen persecution but from internal disruption. The new Heresy supported by the Roman armies and their generals, not only in the east but in Gaul, in Italy, Africa and Spain, seemed an attack too strong for the Church to survive. Society was military then, and the soldiers were Arian. In the seventh and eighth centuries the Arian attack first rapidly declines then wholly passes; the Mahommedan rises gigantic against us. In the ninth and tenth, to the Mahommedans are added the Heathen pirates of the north, and the eastern Mongol hordes. In the eleventh and twelfth the danger lies in a rationalizing movement from within, against the Sacramental mysteries and later against the Hierarchy.

(ii) At any moment there lie upon one side of the Main opposition old forms of attack which are gradually leaving the field—I will call them The "Survivals."

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