Christianity and Civilization
Today’s BreakPoint commentary by Chuck Colson gives a brief review and survey of Rodney Stark’s The Victory of Reason.
Concludes Colson: “This book will you give you some very good ammunition to answer those critics who come up with the same tired, old arguments about the fact that Christianity held back the progress of civilization. Nonsense. The evidence is exactly the opposite.”
For previous discussion of Stark’s thesis on the PowerBlog, check out these posts:
Christian Reason and the Spirit of Capitalism
Capitalism and Christianity, Part II
A Stark Contrast
Reason and Revelation
Concludes Colson: “This book will you give you some very good ammunition to answer those critics who come up with the same tired, old arguments about the fact that Christianity held back the progress of civilization. Nonsense. The evidence is exactly the opposite.”
For previous discussion of Stark’s thesis on the PowerBlog, check out these posts:
Christian Reason and the Spirit of Capitalism
Capitalism and Christianity, Part II
A Stark Contrast
Reason and Revelation
Comments
#1 2006-02-23 01:21 (Reply)
Also of interest will be Thomas E. Woods’s “How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization.”