The War Upon Religion / Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-Christianism in Europe

The work traces the development of anti-Christian movements in Europe from early confessional conflicts through Enlightenment and revolutionary upheavals to nineteenth-century state intrusions and twentieth-century theological Modernism. It surveys Jansenism, Gallicanism, secular philosophic currents, the French Revolution's secularization and persecution, Napoleonic and Josephine interventions, suppression of religious orders, and challenges from liberal theology and freemasonry. The author combines documentary extracts, papal reactions and critiques of modernist doctrines—agnosticism, immanence, subjectivism, symbolism—arguing that these trends erode doctrinal authority and proposing restorations of scholastic theology, ecclesiastical discipline and papal oversight as remedies.