The Closing of the Western Mind
The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason
1 Amer ed edition
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Word Count
116,000 words, Guess
Page Count
464 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveclosingofwestern0000free
- ISBN-10140004085X
- ISBN-139781400040858
- Goodreads1726844
- LibraryThing80866
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- Library of Congress Control Number2002044821
- OCLC Control Number51306061
- Open LibraryOL8362933M
Classifications
- LCCCB245 .F73 2003
- DDC937/.06
- LCCCB245 .F73 2002
Description
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.
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