The Victory of Reason : How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success (Paperback)

from justindtapp

Stark sets out to challenge anthropologists like Jared Diamond who contend that Europeans rose to prominence mainly out of geographic factors in their favor. Stark's hypothesis is that Christian thinking-- forward looking thought towards progress and in favor of basic equality and property rights...

from Voracious_Reader

It was wonderful. It's nice to read a fact-based history of economics and religion that isn't written by someone with a secularist agenda. I so enjoyed it that I bought another book by the same author and am looking for more. It's dense in terms of subject matter, but it makes for a very entertai...

from justindtapp

Stark sets out to challenge anthropologists like Jared Diamond who contend that Europeans rose to prominence mainly out of geographic factors in their favor. Stark's hypothesis is that Christian thinking-- forward looking thought towards progress and in favor of basic equality and property rights...

from gpaisley

recommended by Breakpoint commentary.The first two chapters were very good and really made the thesis case. The next three were an interesting political, industrial, and economic history of Europe, but rarely even refereced the role of Christianity in these developments. The seventh chapter used ...

from ocianain

Ever wonder why so many developments came out of the West? Stark did, and his explanation may be controversial to some, but it's true nonetheless, Christianity. Christianity gave birth to scientific reason, the story is told here.