The Closing of the Western Mind

The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason

Paperback, 480 pages

English language

Published Feb. 8, 2005 by Vintage.

ISBN:
978-1-4000-3380-5
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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

  • History - General History
  • Intellectual life
  • Europe - General
  • Christianity
  • History Of Civilization And Culture (General)
  • History
  • History: World
  • Ancient - Rome
  • History / Ancient / Rome
  • To 476
  • Ancient - General
  • Christianity - History - General
  • 476-1492
  • Europe