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The Closing of the Western Mind

by Charles Freeman

Historical FictionFantasy

2002

How the early Christian Church bent the intellectual climate of the Mediterranean world from one of active and questioning inquiry to an encouragement of the subordination of the mind to authority and acceptance of incomprehensibility as the will of God.

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