Belloc on Survival: the five main forms of attack
Hilaire Belloc Discussing the chances of the present struggle for the survival; of the Church in that very civilization which she created and which is now generally abandoning her. The five the main forms of attack These five are, in their historical order, 1. The Aria n; 2. The Mohammedan; 3. The Albigensian ; 4. The Protestant ; 5. One to which no specific name has as yet been attached, but we shall call for the sake of convenience " the Modern .'' The Arian heresy (filling the fourth, and active throughout the fifth, century), proposed to go to the very root of the Church's authority by attacking the full Divinity of her Founder . The Mohammedan attack was of a different kind. It came geographically from just outside the area of Christendom; it appeared, almost from the outset, as a foreign enemy; yet it was not, strictly speaking, a new religion attacking the old, it was essentially a heresy; but from the circumstances of its birth it was a her...
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