{"product_id":"brief-apologia-for-the-church-of-the-ages-9781998492701","title":"Brief Apologia for the Church of the Ages","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is a work of prophecy. Like Jeremiah or Ezekiel under the Old Law, Roger-Thomas Calmel spoke and wrote as a priest who suffered to see God dishonoured and His people led astray. Those ancient prophets were charged by God to speak against false doctrine; to warn the people of God and their leaders to return to the fear of the Lord, in their worship and in their daily lives; and thus to prevent Israel from being dissolved into the nations round about. Father Calmel, simple priest of the New Law, likewise spoke out against what his sometime mentor, Jacques Maritain, had called 'immanent apostasy': the widespread dissolution, within the visible Church, of dogma, and the replacement of supernatural faith, hope, and charity by merely human simulacra.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFather Calmel's soul remains with us. It is present in his writings, standing on tiptoes, full of the Church's common doctrine and common prayer, stretching upward to grow in God's love. For him theology, liturgy, and the Dominican constitutions were not guides or regulations, but a source of inner nourishment. In our midst he fulfilled his task as a friar preacher, son of Saint Dominic, disciple of Saint Thomas, priest of Jesus Christ, and apostle of the Rosary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe endures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roger-Thomas Calmel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arouca Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781998492701","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Roger-Thomas Calmel \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47659100012701,"sku":"9781998492701","price":35.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_3afbd247-6f40-4a49-930c-3986acbdbb18.jpg?v=1771350042","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/brief-apologia-for-the-church-of-the-ages-9781998492701","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}