Nice historical analysis, dated economic analysis

Buen libro, es contundente, con el estilo enérgico de Belloc, la primera parte explica la crisis de la civilización, en especial en su origen histótico, y luego el momento presente, y hacia el final nos señala lo que él cree que son las medidas que podemos tomar para remediarla. Un llamado a todo católico para ponerse en acción.

I read this years ago and liked it more than I do now. Apparently I forgot about what Belloc sees as the crisis of Christendom - the Reformation. The book is still good, and says a lot of great things (Islam is not a religion, it is a Christian heresy, etc.).

Belloc is so good.

if you are protestant, you don't necessarily have to agree with his suggestion that the reformation was the straw that broke the camel's back in western civilization in order to sympathize with his suggestion that the consequences of the reformation have been catastrophic to western civilization. Belloc paints an engrossing historical portrait of the downfall of Christendom culminating in the economic injustices which we still have today, all the while showing how the reformation is to blame. a must read in the area of church history and economics from a catholic perspective.

Profound, poignant, erudite: Belloc on the tragedy of the Reformation, the loss of Christendom, the rise of capitalism ...

For anyone interested, much more on this theme can also be found in various pieces in the Belloc section of my site: http://corjesusacratissimum.org/tag/h... ...

O Belloc! O Christendom! ...

Hilaire Belloc was an English, Roman Catholic, historian around the turn of the 20th century. He was chums with G.K. Chesterton. They ran a newspaper together, conjured up their own economic theory, called "Distributism", and generally antagonized Bertrand Russell whenever possible.

Hint: By "Crisis", he means social crisis.
Spoiler: The crisis was the Protestant Reformation.

This was the first time I had heard a persuasive case advancing anything negative about the Reformation. It was a little scary for me.

Al leer este libro me sentí en un salón lleno de anti-protestantes dogmáticos. Para un protestante el ambiente de este libro es bastante hostil... Pero es bueno, lo releería en un futuro.