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How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization review:5 stars (Great book) - I'm not a scholar, and I'm not Catholic. But I found Dr. Woods' book an engaging, interesting read that sheds new light on the Middle Ages and Renaissance years. It's the kind of work that provides (at least for a non-History major) an epiphany a page. You can read it in a week, and come away with a much broadened understanding of the topics explained.5 stars (Woods's Reviewers Prove His Point!) - 1) One reviewer comments that Woods writes of anti-Catholic prejudice in America without giving evidence. This is a matter of historical record: from individual events like the burning of the Ursuline Convent to movements like the KKK (founded against Blacks, Jews, and Catholics), the Eugenics movement (ostensibly to rid society of the so-called "feeble-minded," but pushed by uber-eugenicist Margaret Sanger against "Southern Europeans" - i.e., Italian Catholics) - to the Know-Nothing party to the entire "nativist" movement in the US to the vicious and ignorant response to John F. Kennedy's campaign (and I am only scratching the surface!) anti-Catholicism in the US is well documented and would fill volumes. The same reviewer wants "evidence" of the ignorance about the middle ages - well, open just about any popular book on history and there it is - a thousand year blank between the Greeks and the self-proclaimed Renaissance! Many, many textbooks and even historians are just as bad - they skip over the rich, thousand-year tapestry of the Middle Ages - which had universities that in some ways were even freer intellectally than our "political correct" thought police of today - with apparently no knowledge whatsoever of what an exciting and even radical time it was (do you think it was easy for St. Thomas Aquinas to introduce Aristotelian ideas?) The Church did not stifle debate - they were its source! The evidence won't fit in an Amazon review - or in an encyclopedia sized volume. The author shouldn't have to provide evidence for the self-evident! 2) The same reviewer's most startling comment is that the people profiled in the book should be seen merely as philosophers or astronomers, without seeing Catholicism as their "defining characteristic." They should be seen as "individuals" doing "real" work, with their religion as "ancillary!" This betrays both a stunning ignorance of the depth of a Catholic understanding of the world as well as the modern prejudice - projected back into the past - for the primacy of something like modern American consumerism; for the consumer, ideas are merely "ancillary" products. Yes, in the modern world we might say that if a lot of scientists play tennis, then tennis didn't build science, for it is an ancillary hobby. But Catholicism is infinitely more: it is a way of seeing the world. It was an anti-Gnostic, anti-Platonist realism about the world (science did not arise under the religions of the east!); it was a moral vision (the very idea of "charity" would have astonished the Greek philosophers - they had no concept of "agape;" in addition, the original UN documents on human rights draw very, very heavily from Catholic social justice encyclicals); and it is spiritual vision that includes that ultimate worth and dignity of human beings. This was their intellectual, moral, and spiritual milieu, which formed and shaped them; not something "ancillary." 3) Other comments in the same and other reviews betray the same kind of abysmal ignorance that undoubtedly motivated the author to write the book. The book is a general overview. For more details about why Woods is right about Galileo (most of what we think we know about the Galileo case came NOT from the historical record, but from anti-Catholic screeds, including a book by Sanford White and a particularly egregious play), do some serious research. The same is true of the Inquisition - a shameful event that did not need to be falsely expanded to involve "millions" dead, and needed to be placed in the context of those murdered under Protestants like Calvin, or the infinitely worse mass murders under atheists from Stalin and Pol Pot. The author does not justify, but uses his book as an opportunity to try and make people be more honest about what actually happened. This review was not meant to be "helpful" in the way that other good reviews posted here are; it is merely to agree with the author, first that ideas have consequences, and Catholicism did indeed affect the way the West, as opposed to the East, saw and responded to the world. Second, some reviewers, in their lack of knowledge, exemplify precisely the problem that Woods uncovers. People don't even know that "separation of Church and State" goes at least back to Dante the 13th century. A letter-writer to the NY Times asked why anyone should refer to religion when discussing human rights, which, he said, were invented by the Enlightenment! This kind of ignorance is rampant. I haven't even mentioned the popularity of "The Da Vinci Code," which is entirely fictional and appallingly and blatantly false from top to bottom. Rather than demand that it contain thousands of pages of evidence, readers should see Woods's book as just a first step, one that will lead them on a glorious search for the truth that has been so long buried under prejudice, ignorant, and willful hatred. 4 stars (Apologetic for Catholic Advancement of Western World) - Thomas Woods book is mostly factual, at times repetitive, most often a corrective balance to revisionists "junk" advanced by anti-religion pseudo-intellectuals (example, another reviewer giving the French Revolution credit for democracy - one it is grossly off-target and misleading). I think Woods does whitewash some items, like simony, the crusades which helped increase the tensions between the East and West Churches, and the inquisition; but I think he means his book to be a corrective to anti-Catholic propaganda more than a thorough history of the Roman Catholic Church. The book is strongest when dealing with the history of the richness of Catholic pioneers in the sciences. It is just factual, that the Catholic Church, through its emphasis on education and looking at God's laws as ordered and natural, lead Western thought in the physical sciences during the late scholastic and early enlightenment periods. Again, the Islamic religion completely lagged in the most important areas to scientific contribution in regards to physics and astronomy. Woods sets the Galileo record straight as well. The section on international law is also very good and the idea of natural rights. I do think, however, some credit is due to the Reformation, which advanced political thought and literacy rates and education. These ideas of conscience also advanced Western Civilization to a great extent. One of the most important contributions is the university system and this expanding of re-thinking of what a university is by the Catholic Church lead to advancements in vocational and academic advancements.
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