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Surveying the two centuries from the pre-revolutionary ancién régime to the commencement of the Cold War

With confidence and compassion

Bellarmine invites us to enter into relationship with Christ and his passion so we can be changed by it

Jesus and His Times, Volume I Benson Briel and an Afterword byBy Henri Daniel Rops Jesus is at once of history and beyond it. To write a life of Jesus Christ, to chronicle his sayings and his works, to study him in the context of his historical time and place, is not simply to compose a biography. It is to encounter a unique and tremendous mystery: the mystery of the Incarnation, in the words of Henri Daniel Rops: of the enigma posed by this man, like one of ourselves, whose words and gestures bring into