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How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
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How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
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Publisher's Summary
Western civilization has given us modern science, the wealth of free-market economics, the security of law, a sense of human rights and freedom, charity as a virtue, splendid art and music, philosophy grounded in reason, and innumerable other gifts we take for granted. But what is the ultimate source of these gifts? Best-selling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr., provides the answer: the Catholic Church.
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. Woods' book is essential reading for recovering this lost truth.
What the critics say
"I recommend Professor Woods's book not only to anyone interested in the history of the Catholic Church, but also to any student of the history and development of Western civilization." (Dr. Paul Legutko, Stanford University)
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-05-25
intresting and fair
the book was very interesting and provides an almost entirely unheard (today) perspectiveon the catholic church. The author seems very objective and fair in his analysis and clearly makes a solid case in my opinion.
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- Vangel Vesovski
- 2022-03-14
About Time
Woods has produced a much-needed response to the logical positivists and historians that worship the State. Ironically, many of my agnostic physics and engineering professors made some of the same arguments and took up the same defense of the Catholic Church.
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- Curtis Scoville, G7 Wealth Coach
- 2021-11-29
The Real Enlightenment
This was for me a true enlightenment and was both uplifting and illuminating. Thank you.
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- Chantal C.
- 2021-10-03
Loved it
Very enjoyable! hard to put down. wish I didn't listened through it so quickly.
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- Mr Steven W Ballem
- 2023-02-09
A very good review
Calumny of the church is a pastime for many. This is a good study in history that gives a better witness.
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- C Hunter
- 2023-01-10
What on earth did I just read
This book is basically a history of the last 2000 years if the Catholic Church were the main character. Was hoping for an insightful look at the underpinnings of western culture and the church’s role in it. Instead it’s basically a list of reasons to pat the church on the back and never criticize it again.
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- Maria McDonald
- 2023-01-03
So much fiction presented as truth
This book will make no sense to you unless you firmly believe in the catholic version of God and and the catholic religion.
The author represents a very arrogant position, just as one example, he claims that the reason science came from catholicism is because catholics had the correct understanding of God as the creator of the universe; the Chinese, for example couldn't achieve "proper" science because of the lack of this believe in the "true" God......WHAAAAT?!?
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