The Closing of the Western Mind

The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason

Hardcover, 464 pages

English language

Published Oct. 7, 2003 by Knopf.

ISBN:
978-1-4000-4085-8
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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
  • History: World
  • Europe
  • Christianity
  • History Of Civilization And Culture (General)
  • History - General History
  • Europe - General
  • Ancient - Rome
  • History / Ancient / Rome
  • Influence
  • Ancient - General
  • Christianity - History - General
  • Church and state
  • Civilization, Western