Faith of our fathers : a history of true England / Joseph Pearce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pearce, Joseph, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--England--History.

Catholic Church.

England--Church history.

England.

Genre:

Church history.

History.

Physical Description:

384 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Ignatius Press, [2022]

Summary:

"The Catholic Church has been a part of English history since the arrival of Christian missionaries to Roman Britain in the first century after Christ. England was evangelized in these early centuries to such an extent that, by the time the Romans withdrew in the fifth century, the Celtic population was largely Catholic. Anglo-Saxon England, prior to the Norman Conquest, was a land of saints. From St. Bede, with his history of the early Church, to the holy king St. Edward the Confessor, Saxon England was ablaze with the light of Christ. During the reign of St. Edward, a vision of the Virgin at Walsingham placed the Mother of God on the throne as England's queen, the land being considered her dowry. Even following the Norman Conquest, the Faith continued to flourish and prosper, making its joyful presence felt in what would become known as Merrie England. Then in the sixteenth century, this Catholic heart was ripped from the people of England, against their will and in spite of their spirited and heroic resistance, by the reign of the Tudors. This made England once again a land of saints--that is, of martyrs, with Catholic priests and laity being put to death for practicing the Faith. The martyrdoms would continue for 150 years, followed by a further 150 years of legal and political persecution. In the nineteenth century, against all the odds, there was a great Catholic revival, heralded by the conversion of St. John Henry Newman, which would continue into the twentieth century. Much of the greatest literature of the past century has been written by literary converts to the Church, such as G. K. Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and J. R. R. Tolkien. This whole exciting, faith-filled story is told by Joseph Pearce within a single-volume history of "true England", the England that remained true to the faith through thick and thin, in times both "merrie" and perilous. It is a story not only worth telling but worth celebrating"--book jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. A Christ-Haunted Country

2. The England Before England

3. A Land of Saints

4. Christian Kings and the Queen of Heaven

5. Tyrannical Kings and Heroic Resistance

6. Merrie England

7. Our Lady's Dowry

8. Prelude to Tyranny

9. The Tudor Terror

10. Pillage and Pilgrimage

11. A Protestant Puppet

12. Mary Tudor

13. Bloody Bess

14. A Land of Martyrs

15. England on the Rack

16. God's Spice

17. God's Spies

18. Prelude to War

19. Regicide, Restoration, and Revolution

20. The Recusant Remnant

21. The Tide Turns

22. Rome and Romanticism

23. A Second Spring

24. Manning and Newman

25. Literary Converts

26. The Catholic Literary Revival

27. Beyond Modernity

28. The Return of the Queen.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781621644354

1621644359

OCLC:

1310488969