Ask
someone today where Western Civilization originated, and he or she
might say Greece or Rome. But what is the ultimate source of Western
Civilization? Bestselling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
provides the long neglected answer: the Catholic Church. In the new
paperback edition of his critically-acclaimed book, How
the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization,
Woods goes far beyond the familiar tale of monks copying manuscripts
and preserving the wisdom of classical antiquity. Gifts such as
modern science, free-market economics, art, music, and the idea of
human rights come from the Catholic Church, explains Woods. 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 law
- How
the Church humanized the West by insisting on the sacredness of all
human life
No
institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the
two-thousand-year-old Catholic Church—and in ways that many of us
have forgotten or never known. How
the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
is
essential reading for recovering this lost truth.