{"product_id":"the-age-of-faith-to-787","title":"THE AGE OF FAITH (to 787)","description":"\u003cp\u003ebook  presupposes  that,  without  violating  human  freedom,  God  acts  in  history in  order  to  give  opportunities  for  repentance  to  all.  In  it  He  administers  mercy  and justice,  albeit  only  partially;  for  the  fullness  of  both  mercy  and  justice  must  await  the Day  of  the  Last  Judgement,  which  both  brings  history  to  an  end  and  goes  beyond history  into  eternity.  It  also  presupposes  that  we  can  see,  albeit  through  a  glass  darkly, whither we are going, that  God  lifts  the veil, albeit  partially, on His  judgements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe  historian  generalizes  from  the  lives  of  saints  and  sinners  to  the  more  abstract processes,  structures  and  laws  that  work  in  their  lives  in  the  context  of  GodÕs Providence.  The  story  this  book  tells,  therefore,  following  the  terminology  of  the historian  Christopher  Clark  in  Sleepwalkers,  involves  answering  not  only  the  hows  and the  whys  of  history  but  also  its  whithers.  Thus,  for  example,  when  considering  the  death of  Julius  Caesar  at  the  hands  of  Brutus,  we  can  ask  ÒWhy  did  Brutus  do  it?Ó,  which can  be  answered  in  terms  both  of  individual  psychology  and  of  the  influence  of despotic  and  republican  ideas,  and  ÒHow  did  he  do  it?Ó,  which  can  be  answered  in terms  of  the  details  of  the  senatorial  conspiracy.  But  there  is  third,  higher  question: ÒWhy  did  God  allow  it?Ó  or  ÒWhither  was  God  leading  mankind  in  allowing  the murder?Ó  And  the  answer  to  that  might  be  along  the  lines  of:  ÒGod  allowed  it  in  order to  bring  down  the  republican  system,  and  bring  in  the  imperial  era  of  Roman  history, in  order,  eventually,  to  create  the  Orthodox  Christian  Autocracy,  the  New  Rome  of  St. Constantine the Great,  as  the main protector on earth of His  Holy  Church.Ó\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44261591220385,"sku":"upcabc640","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/e2r9mg-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1713936299","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/the-age-of-faith-to-787","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}