The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success Stark RodneyPaperback
The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success Stark RodneyPaperback Many books have been written about the success of the West, analyzing why Europe was able…
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The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success Stark RodneyPaperback
Many books have been written about the success of the West, analyzing why Europe was able to pull ahead of the rest of the world by the end of the Middle Ages. Completely overlooked is the fact that faith in reason, rooted in Christianity's commitment to rational theology, made all these developments possible. The most common explanations cite the West's superior geography, commerce, and technology.
Simply put, the conventional wisdom that Western success depended upon overcoming religious barriers to progress is utter nonsense.In The Victory of Reason, Rodney Stark advances a revolutionary, controversial, and long overdue idea: that Christianity and its related institutions are, in fact, directly responsible for the most significant intellectual, political, scientific, and economic breakthroughs of the past millennium.In Stark's view, what has propelled the West is