The Closing of the Western Mind : The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason (Paperback)

from neurodrew

The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason Charles Freeman Nov 1, 2009 6:10 PM Freeman writes about the development of orthodoxy in the early Christian church. His thesis is that orthodoxy could not be derived from the contradictory sources of the gospels by the app...

from neurodrew

The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason Charles Freeman Nov 1, 2009 6:10 PM Freeman writes about the development of orthodoxy in the early Christian church. His thesis is that orthodoxy could not be derived from the contradictory sources of the gospels by the app...

from datrappert

Scholarly but readable book that highlights an era when religion began to take over from reason. Hmmm--maybe that era has never really ended, at least not in some parts of the world (or some parts of our own country).

from dougwood57

In a single volume Charles Freeman manages to cover the intellectual and theological development of the West and Christianity from Plato and Aristotle through Augustine. He tells this story in some detail and generally holds the reader's interest. Freeman explores the Synoptic Gospels (single vis...

from billiecat

While I was attending a law school affiliated with the Catholic Church, a significant, and, in a way, frightening letter appeared in the school newspaper decrying the fact that there were classes being taught at the university where ideas and beliefs different from those put forth by the Vatican ...