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How the West was Lost, by Alexander Boot; I.B. Tauris, 2006, about $80.
THIS IS AN ELEGANTLY written elegy for the Christian civilisation which preceded what we now call "early modernity", and the marvellous God-focused architecture, music, art and literature that civilisation produced. It is also an impassioned attack on the Enlightenment and the inhuman anti-culture it advisedly generated.
At the centre of Christian civilisation stood "Westman" as Alexander Boot calls him, a European figure drawing on the Judaic sense of the divine primacy in all existence, a sense developed further by the story, myth or reality, of divine intervention in the form of ...
Source: HighBeam Research, What Modman has wrought.(How the West Was Lost)(Book review)