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How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
Woods, Thomas E., Jr.; Canizares, Antonio, Cardinal
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Description for How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
Paperback. Describes how and why the Catholic church gave Western Civilization some of its most integral and distinctive characteristics. This title includes an introduction by Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church Antonio Canizares. Num Pages: 280 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
Ask someone today where Western Civilization originated, and he or she might say Greece or Rome. But what is the ultimate source of Western Civilization? Bestselling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. provides the long neglected answer: the Catholic Church. In the new paperback edition of his critically-acclaimed book, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, Woods goes far beyond the familiar tale of monks copying manuscripts and preserving the wisdom of classical antiquity. Gifts such as modern science, free-market economics, art, music, and the idea of human rights come from the Catholic Church, explains Woods. In How the ... Read more, you’ll learn:
No institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Churchand in ways that many of us have forgotten or never known. How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization is essential reading for recovering this lost truth. Show Less
Ask someone today where Western Civilization originated, and he or she might say Greece or Rome. But what is the ultimate source of Western Civilization? Bestselling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. provides the long neglected answer: the Catholic Church. In the new paperback edition of his critically-acclaimed book, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, Woods goes far beyond the familiar tale of monks copying manuscripts and preserving the wisdom of classical antiquity. Gifts such as modern science, free-market economics, art, music, and the idea of human rights come from the Catholic Church, explains Woods. In How the ... Read more, you’ll learn:
- Why modern science was born in the Catholic Church
- How Catholic priests developed the idea of free-market economics five hundred years before Adam Smith
- How the Catholic Church invented the university
- Why what you know about the Galileo affair is wrong
- How Western law grew out of Church canon law
- How the Church humanized the West by insisting on the sacredness of all human life
No institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Churchand in ways that many of us have forgotten or never known. How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization is essential reading for recovering this lost truth. Show Less
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Regnery Publishing Inc United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Washington DC, United States
ISBN
9781596983281
SKU
V9781596983281
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Ref
99-15
About Woods, Thomas E., Jr.; Canizares, Antonio, Cardinal
Thomas E. Woods Jr. is the New York Times bestselling author of Meltdown and The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, among other books. He holds a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard and a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. A recipient of the Templeton Enterprise Award and the O. P. Alford III Prize for Libertarian Scholarship, he is a ... Read more
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