How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization - Couverture souple

Woods Jr., Thomas E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1596983280 ISBN 13 : 9781596983281

Editeur : Regnery History, 2012

Synopsis

In the new paperback edition of bestselling author's Thomas E. Woods, Jr.'s "How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization", Woods describes how and why the Catholic church gave Western Civilization some of its most integral and distinctive characteristics. It comes now with new introduction by Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church Antonio Canizares. 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. No institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Church - and 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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, 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 Church and 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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Regnery History
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1596983280
• ISBN 13: 9781596983281
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280