A History of the Church, Volume I Franco David Fanucci recreation and the exercise of

recreation and the exercise of self-denial

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A History of the Church, Volume I Franco David Fanucci recreation and the exercise ofTo survey the history of the Catholic Church is, in the words of Eamon Duffy, to be left with a sense of the intractable complexity of the historical reality of the Church and its institutions. To do justice to this complexity, Philip Hughes wrote an ambitious, three volume survey of Church historycomprehensive in scope yet accessible in detail. In Volume I: The Church and the World in Which It Was Founded, Hughes dispenses with the chronological