num_pages: 272
description: Trojan Horse in the City of God is a pull-no-punches analysis of the causes of the continuing Catholic chaos. In today's Catholic parishes, false ideas about God and His Church seem more common than statues and holy water. Confusion and disillusion are rampant, and no one seems to know how to reverse Catholicism's decline. Yet the path out of this crisis was mapped long ago. In these prophetic pages (first published in 1967), renowned Catholic philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand exposes the poverty of the sad and confused ideas of all too many contemporary Christians, contrasting those errors with the majestic and unchanging truths of Divine Revelation. You'll find here an arsenal of defenses for the unchanging, eternal Faith. Von Hildebrand shows again and again that ideas that many modern Catholics take for granted are actually subtle but potent threats to the integrity of the Church. He exposes the secularization that threatens to rot away the Church's very sources of strength. And he demolishes a great deal of the woolly thinking that is found today even in the highest reaches of the Church. Von Hildebrand will bring you the comforting reassurance that the light of sound reasoning has not vanished from our world; nor has fidelity to Divine Revelation and to the the fountainhead and guardian of that Revelation, Christ's Catholic Church. This incisive and thought-provoking book will enlighten you about Vatican how its message has been distorted and twisted within the Church. You'll find out why the terms progressive and conservative are inadequate for the realities of the Church, and why the Church is essentially unchanged throughout the ages, before and after Vatican II. You'll learn why true reform in the Church can never change the Church's fundamental nature, and why there must always be struggle (not just dialogue!) between the Church and the world. Above all, von Hildebrand explains why secularization, if unchecked in the Church, will destroy the true Faith. And you'll discover much more that will help you combat, more effectively than ever, the errors that sap the Church's strength today!
language: English
title: Trojan Horse in the City of God: How Godlessness Crept into the Sanctuary-And How to Thrust It Out Again
titlecomplete: Trojan Horse in the City of God: How Godlessness Crept into the Sanctuary-And How to Thrust It Out Again
genres: History, Christianity, Philosophy, Religion, Catholic, Church History, Theology, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 77
publisher: Sophia Inst Pr