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Ask a college student today what he is aware of the Catholic Church and his answer might come down to 1 word: "corruption." But any particular one word should be "civilization." Western civilization has given us the miracles of modern science, the wealth of free-market economics, the security of the rule of law, a unique sense of human rights and freedom, charity as a virtue, splendid art and music, a philosophy grounded in reason, and innumerable other gifts that people take for granted as the wealthiest & most powerful civilization ever sold. But what is the ultimate way to obtain these gifts? Bestselling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. provides the long neglected answer: the Catholic Church. Woods?s story goes far beyond the familiar tale of monks copying manuscripts and preserving the wisdom of classical antiquity. In The way the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, you?ll learn: · Why modern science was created in the Catholic Church · How Catholic priests developed the thought of free-market economics 500 years before Adam Smith · The way the Catholic Church invented the university · Why what you know about the Galileo affair is wrong · How Western law grew out of Church canon law · The way the Church humanized the West by insisting on the sacredness of all human life No institution has done more to condition Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Church?and with techniques that many of us have forgotten or never known. The way the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization is vital reading for recovering this lost truth.
