Religious Renewal in France, 1789-1870The Roman Catholic Church between Catastrophe and Triumph\nAuthor(s): Roger Price\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783319671956, 978-3319671956\nSynopsis\nThis book provides a study of the manner in which the Roman Catholic Church in Franceresponded to successive revolutions between 1789 and 1870 as well as to the cultural upheavalassociated with accelerating socio-economic change. It focuses on the Church as aninstitution engaged in a dynamic process of (re)Christianization and determined, as the onlyrepository of the true faith of Jesus Christ, to fortify belief , and to combat the Satanic forcesof moral corruption and revolutionary chaos and create a counter society, the socit [url] of the Church as an institution in crisis, of the recruitment, instruction and mind-setsof its bishops, parish clergy, and the members of religious orders, of its hierarchical st.