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What "Dark Ages"?(The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success)(Book review)
Rodney Stark The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. Random House, 304- pages, $25.95
If you hold the following three propositions, the massive evidence marshaled in this book asks you to reconsider them: (1) For eleven centuries after the legitimation of Catholicism under Constantine in 323 A.D., the Church kept liberty in chains and progress in check, imposing backwardness on the "Dark" Ages; (2) Only after the overthrow of Catholic unity by the Reformation, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment did systemic invention, science, and freedom appear, and speedily make the West great; (3) Capitalism originated under ...
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