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Published on: 2007-12-18
Released on: 2007-12-18
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Many books have been written about the success of the West, analyzing why Europe was able to pull ahead of the rest of the world by the end of the Middle Ages. The most common explanations cite the West’s superior geography, commerce, and technology. Completely overlooked is the fact that faith in reason, rooted in Christianity’s commitment to rational theology, made all these developments possible. Simply put, the conventional wisdom that Western success depended upon overcoming religious barriers to progress is utter nonsense.In The Victory of Reason, Rodney Stark advances a revolutionary, controversial, and long overdue idea: that Christianity and its related institutions are, in fact, directly responsible for the most significant intellectual, political, scientific, and economic breakthroughs of the past millennium. In Stark’s view, what has propelled the West is not the tension between secular and nonsecular society, nor the pitting of science and the humanities against religious belief. Christian theology, Stark asserts, is the very font of reason: While the world’s other great belief systems emphasized mystery, obedience, or introspection, Christianity alone embraced logic and reason as the path toward enlightenment, freedom, and progress. That is what made all the difference.In explaining the West’s dominance, Stark convincingly debunks long-accepted “truths.” For instance, by contending that capitalism thrived centuries before there was a Protestant work ethic–or even Protestants–he counters the notion that the Protestant work ethic was responsible for kicking capitalism into overdrive. In the fifth century, Stark notes, Saint Augustine celebrated theological and material progress and the institution of “exuberant invention.” By contrast, long before Augustine, Aristotle had condemned commercial trade as “inconsistent with human virtue”–which helps further underscore that Augustine’s times were not the Dark Ages but the incubator for the West’s future glories. This is a sweeping, multifaceted survey that takes readers from the Old World to the New, from the past to the present, overturning along the way not only centuries of prejudiced scholarship but the antireligious bias of our own time. The Victory of Reason proves that what we most admire about our world–scientific progress, democratic rule, free commerce–is largely due to Christianity, through which we are all inheritors of this grand tradition. A Historical Outline of Modern Religious Criticism in ... A Historical Outline of Modern Religious Criticism in Western Civilization. By - September 10 2005. Galileo trying to convince the Pope of his views Global Capitalism The History and Nature of Capitalism An Evolving EBook. By Bill Geddes. Revised: 08 January 2017. Select the download option that works for your antivirus program: (Zipped HTML Version; Zipped EPUB ... Rodney Stark - Wikipedia Further reading. Rodney Stark his homepage; Stark interrogated in court as an expert; David Lehman Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion chapter 8 in Bryan ... Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - Wikipedia Hungarian Revolution of 1956; Part of the Cold War: Flag of Hungary with the communist coat of arms cut out. The flag with a hole became the symbol of the revolution. Links 6/12/16 naked capitalism polecat June 12 2016 at 8:39 pm. its relevant in that the MSM most likely will gloss over that if it is in fact true if it mean tarnishing Candidate Hillary and ... Macmillan - Distinguished & Award Winning Global Publisher ... Love Warrior Glennon Doyle Melton in studio Love Warrior is a gorgeous and inspiring account of how we are born to be warriors: strong powerful and brave; able to ... Meditations On Moloch Slate Star Codex [Content note: Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions!] I. Scattered examples of my reading material for ... Gates of Vienna After being taken down twice by Blogger within a single week we got the message: Its Time To Go. Gates of Vienna has moved to a new address: Internet History Sourcebooks The Internet Modern History Sourcebook now contains thousands of sources and the previous index pages were so large that they were crashing ... Guide for the Perplexed about Jewish Influences - Big Lies For Jewish influences in the USA I recommend Kevin MacDonald's books. He's an evolutionary psychologist with tenure in California. As far as I know there are no ...
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