The Catholic Controversy: St. Francis de Sales' Defense of by Francis de Sales,Henry B. Mackey
By Francis de Sales,Henry B. Mackey
One of the main impressive and well-documented occasions in Catholic background started whilst a tender priest, St. Francis de revenues, volunteered to re-evangelize the Calvinists of the Chablais.
Finding his preaching forcefully rejected, St. Francis de revenues shrewdly switched strategies and started a written apologetics crusade, posting pamphlets on partitions and slipping them underneath doorways less than the canopy of night.
His safety of the religion used to be so transparent and thorough that on the finish of 4 years approximately the full inhabitants of 72,000 had lower back to the Catholic Faith!
These strong little tracts are as correct this day as they have been within the overdue 1500s. St. Francis de revenues attracts aid from Scripture, the Fathers and medical professionals of the Church to handle questions nonetheless often posed via smooth Protestants.
Revered as the most cogent arguments opposed to Protestantism ever penned; they current a safeguard of the Catholic religion that hasn't ever been equaled.
Now with appealing new conceal, more straightforward to learn measurement, up-to-date typesetting, and the unique content material. 320 pps PB
St. Francis de revenues used to be probably the most powerful Catholic apologists and evangelists of the prior 5 centuries. surely, he's the simplest apologist to Protestant Calvinists who has ever lived.
Steve wooden (Family lifestyles middle International)
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