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26. Mai 2022
Accessible but thought provoking
Rodney Stark has a knack for writing history that is simultaneously accessible to the general reader and thought provoking to the history buff. In The Victory of Reason he makes the case that the West gave birth to capitalism and science and eliminated slavery precisely because it embraced the foundational and unique axioms of Christianity. In the process, he exposes the errors of Enlightenment thinkers, who were so pleased with themselves and so contemptuous of what preceded them that they dubbed themselves "enlightened" and previous centuries "dark," even though, in the West, those previous centuries were marked by steady progress and innovation, not regression. In this slim volume, Stark knocks down notion of the Middle Ages as an interruption of the progress from classical antiquity to the Enlightenment (which is where Enlightenment thinkers came up with the notion of "Middle Ages" or the "Dark Ages" in the first place - to them, the ancients were "classical," they were "enlightened," and the many centuries in between were just "in the middle" where nothing worthwhile happened because it was held back the Catholic Church's superstition, backwardness and terror). Stark makes the case that the world prior to Rome's fall in the West was basically in a state of arrested development, and that the smaller and less powerful political structures of subsequent centuries fostered greater creativity and led to greater individual freedom and prosperity than had ever been seen to that point anywhere in human history. Making this development even possible was Christianity, which in Western Europe was the Catholic Church, serving as both the cultural glue and the intellectual engine of the age. Many will instinctively recoil at the thought, so commonly derided has been the Catholic Church for centuries. But such reactions are emotional, not rational. And Stark shows why.
26. Mai 2022
An important corrective to the conventional wisdom
So much of the conventional understanding of history is simply the propaganda of yesteryear recycled from generation to generation. Stark does a decent job refuting some of the more common calumnies against the Catholic Church, such as those pertaining to the Crusades, the Church's relationships with and positions toward slavery and science, the Spanish Inquisition, and more. In the process, he shows how exaggerations and outright falsehoods came to be accepted as fact. Recommended.