The closing of the Western mind

the rise of faith and the fall of reason

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470 pages

English language

Published Dec. 4, 2002 by Heinemann.

ISBN:
978-0-434-00853-7
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How the early Christian Church bent the intellectual climate of the Mediterranean world from one of active and questioning inquiry to an encouragement of the subordination of the mind to authority and acceptance of incomprehensibility as the will of God.

3 editions

Subjects

  • Civilization, Western.
  • Christianity -- Influence.
  • Church and state -- Europe -- History.
  • Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
  • Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
  • Civilization, Western -- Classical influences.
  • Hellenism.
  • Europe -- History -- To 476.
  • Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
  • Europe -- Intellectual life.