How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
by Woods, Thomas E., Jr.Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-09-18
Publisher(s): Regnery Publishing
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Summary
No institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Church-from science and universities to art, law, economics, and much more. How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by bestselling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr. is essential reading for recovering this lost truth. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, as well as The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era and The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy. He holds four Ivy League degrees, including an A.B. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Columbia. He lives with his family in Topeka, Kansas.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. xiii |
| The Indispensable Church | p. 1 |
| A Light in the Darkness | p. 9 |
| How the Monks Saved Civilization | p. 25 |
| The Church and the University | p. 47 |
| The Church and Science | p. 67 |
| Art, Architecture, and the Church | p. 115 |
| The Origins of International Law | p. 135 |
| The Church and Economics | p. 155 |
| How Catholic Charity Changed the World | p. 171 |
| The Church and Western Law | p. 189 |
| The Church and Western Morality | p. 205 |
| Conclusion A World Without God | p. 219 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 229 |
| Bibliography | p. 231 |
| Notes | p. 243 |
| Index | p. 269 |
| About the Author | p. 283 |
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