The closing of the Western mind :the rise of faith and the fall of reason /Charles Freeman.
Description
Thomas Aquinas and "the triumph of faith" -- The quest for certainty -- The quest for virtue -- Changing political contexts : Alexander and the coming of the Hellenistic monarchies -- Absorbing the East, Rome and the integration of Greek culture -- "All nations look to the majesty of Rome" : the Roman empire at its height -- The empire in crisis, the empire in recovery : political transformations in the third century -- Jesus -- Paul, "the founder of Christianity"? -- "A crowd that lurks in corners, shunning light" : the first Christian communities -- Constantine and the coming of the Christian state -- "But what I wish, that must be canon" : emperors and the making of Christian doctrine -- "Enriched by the gifts of matrons" : bishops and society in the fourth century -- Six emperors and a bishop : Ambrose of Milan -- Interlude : Quintus Aurelius Symmachus and the defence of paganism -- The ascetic odyssey -- Eastern Christianity and the emergence of the Byzantine Empire, 395-600 -- The emergence of Catholic Christianity in the West, 395-640 -- "We honour the privilege of silence which is without peril" : the death of the Greek empirical tradition -- Thomas Aquinas and the restoration of reason.
xxiii, 432 p., [16] p. of plates :ill., map ;25 cm.
Book Details
Author
Freeman, Charles
Publication Subjects
Civilization, Western.
Christianity--Influence.
Church and state--Europe--History.
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Civilization, Western--Classical influences.
Hellenism.
Call No.
CB245 .F73 2003
ISBN
140004085X
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-416) and index.
Publication Info: New York :A.A. Knopf,2004, c2002.