How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 256 pages
• Published by: Regnery Publishing, Inc. May 2, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0895260387
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0895260383
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Product Review
"Engaging and engrossing. A mine of information on the debt we owe to Catholic life and thought." -- Michael P. Foley, Ph.D., assistant professor of Patristics, Great Texts Program, Baylor University

"Puts the Church back where it should be: at the center of values, science, laws, and institutions of Western civilization." -- Dr. Paul Legutko, Stanford University

"Superb and scholarly. Highly recommended." -- Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, professor emeritus, the City University of New York

Product Description
From modern economics to Western art and m usic, the Catholic Church has contributed more to the development of Western civilization than any other institution--but rarely gets credit for it.

Reader Reviews
This is one of those eye-opening books that put to rest widely accepted but nonetheless misguided notions about the past. In 225 information-packed pages Tom Woods reveals how, in the aftermath of the collapse of the Roman Empire, the Catholic Church single-handedly revived and rebuilt Western civilization. The Benedictine monks, for example, transformed wasteland and swamps into fertile fields, harnessed water power, and bred healthier strains of livestock. The Jesuits became pre-eminent in astronomy and developed a scientific approach to archaeology. The Church fostered village schools and the great universities of Paris, Bologna, Oxford, and Cambridge; operated hospitals and orphanages; sheltered and fed the poor; and formulated the idea of basic human rights. Thanks to this book, people who use the term "medieval" as an insult are going to be awfully embarrassed.