How The Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Donald Woods
This book argues that the institutions, ideas, and cultural achievements commonly associated with Western civilization—including universities, hospitals, charitable institutions, canon and common law, preservation and transmission of classical learning, and advances in science and the arts—grew directly out of the religious, intellectual, and organizational work of the medieval Catholic Church; it presents a revisionist, often polemical account that credits the Church’s monasteries, clergy, and ecclesiastical structures with fostering literacy, legal order, charitable care, and philosophical inquiry that laid the foundations for modern Europe.
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- 2005
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