Back in 2006 I briefly discussed sociologist Rodney Stark's book, The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success (Random, 2005). Now over at Evolving Thoughts, John provides a guest post by Thony Christie that discusses Stark's claims about the history of science.
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There is a nice piece in The New Republic (Jan 16th, unfortunately not online) titled "A Reason For Everything" in which Alan Wolfe reviews Rodney Stark's book The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success (Random, 2005; Amazon). Stark is a sociologist (…
Back in January I discussed a review of Rodney Stark's triumphalist The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Lead to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success by Alan Wolfe who describes the book as "the worst book by a social scientist that I have ever read." The current issue of Historically…
Thony Christie, a regular commenter on this blog, is also a historian of science, and he sent the following guest post that I thought well worth publishing.
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Thanks for the link. ThC