How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
by Woods, Thomas E., Jr.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-05-02
Publisher(s): INGRAM
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Summary
Will strike an enormous chord with readers looking to defend Western Civilization and their faith.
Author Biography
Professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, as well as The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era and The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy. He holds four Ivy League degrees, including an A.B. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Columbia. He lives with his family in Coram, New York.
Table of Contents
| Chapter One THE INDISPENSABLE CHURCH | 1 | (8) | |
| Chapter Two A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS | 9 | (16) | |
| Chapter Three How THE MONKS SAVED CIVILIZATION | 25 | (22) | |
| Chapter Four THE CHURCH AND THE UNIVERSITY | 47 | (20) | |
| Chapter Five THE CHURCH AND SCIENCE | 67 | (48) | |
| Chapter Six ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND THE CHURCH | 115 | (18) | |
| Chapter Seven THE ORIGINS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW | 133 | (20) | |
| Chapter Eight THE CHURCH AND ECONOMICS | 153 | (16) | |
| Chapter Nine How CATHOLIC CHARITY CHANGED THE WORLD | 169 | (18) | |
| Chapter Ten THE CHURCH AND WESTERN LAW | 187 | (16) | |
| Chapter Eleven THE CHURCH AND WESTERN MORALITY | 203 | (14) | |
| Conclusion A WORLD WITHOUT GOD | 217 | (10) | |
| Acknowledgments | 227 | (2) | |
| Bibliography | 229 | (12) | |
| Notes | 241 | (26) | |
| Index | 267 |
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