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How the Catholic Church built Western civilization by Woods, Thomas E., Jr., Cardinal Antonio Cañizares is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is How the Catholic Church built Western civilization about?

Ask a college student today what he knows about the Catholic Church and his answer might come down to one word: "corruption." But that one word should be "civilization." Western civilization has given us the miracles of modern science, the wealth of free-market economics, the security of the rule of law, a unique sense of human rights and freedom, charity as a virtue, splendid art and music, a philosophy grounded in reason, and innumerable other gifts that we take for granted as the wealthiest and most powerful civilization in history. But what is the ultimate source of these gifts? Bestselling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. provides the long neglected answer: the Catholic Church. Woods’s story goes far beyond the familiar tale of monks copying manuscripts and preserving the wisdom of classical antiquity. 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

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Woods, Thomas E., Jr., Cardinal Antonio Cañizares
Publisher
Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company
Published
2005
Language
EN
ISBN
9781596986114
Category
history
Subjects
Western, Christian, History
Rating
4.12 / 5 (1,358 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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