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Hilaire Belloc. Europe And The Faith
Europe And The Faith
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Catholic Conscience of History
Chapter I. What Was The Roman Empire?
Chapter II. What Was The Church in the Roman Empire?
Chapter III. What Was the "Fall" of the Roman Empire?
Chapter IV. The Beginning of the Nations
Chapter V. What Happened in Britain?
The Evidence
Chapter VI. The Dark Ages
Chapter VII. The Middle Ages
Chapter VIII. What Was the Reformation?
Chapter IX. The Defection of Britain
Chapter X. Conclusion
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Hilaire Belloc
Published by Good Press, 2021
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From so recent and universal an example I turn to one local, distant, precise, in which this same Catholic Conscience of European history may be tested.
Consider the particular (and clerical) example of Thomas à Becket: the story of St. Thomas of Canterbury. I defy any man to read the story of Thomas a Becket in Stubbs, or in Green, or in Bright, or in any other of our provincial Protestant handbooks, and to make head or tail of it.
