This volume includes Abbe Gaumeâ (TM)s sweeping overview of creation and human history leading up to the incarnation, offered from the supernatural perspective that "Jesus Christ is the immortal King of ages, the Alpha and the Omega, the center to which all rays converge." In the dizzying religious indifferentism of our own age, it is bracing to find here the classical doctrine that there is only one true religion, which has existed from the first: "The religion that we profess has always existed, since, from the beginning of the world, the expectation of Jesus Christ has been its soul. ... Faith in Jesus Christ has been thefaith of all ages." One is likewise struck by the many anecdotal glimpses of the "religion and science" debates of the early nineteenth century, and perhaps even more by Abbe Gaumeâ (TM)s claims of how natural science, once "the arsenal in which impiety sought for weapons against the faith," now "renders homage to religion." The Catechism of Persevernace is one of the
