How Catholic Saved Civilization
McCloskey, Rev. C. J.
BOOKS IN REVIEW - "How Catholic Saved Civilization" of the movement. By writing, speaking, and organizing seminars, she brought ideas to the activists. Most historians trace the shifting of the cultural divide in America among...
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...He notes, "It was precisely this sense of the rationality and predictability of the physical world that gave early modern scientists the philosophical confidence to engage in scientific study in the first place...
...Let us hope that more historians emulate Critchlow, and that more women emerge to emulate Schlafly...
...wwwi pectatokorg 68 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 2005 cially interesting Woods's explanation of how modern science gained its original impetus from Catholic theology...
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...Her book A Choice, Not an Echo made Schlafly a figure of national prominence by selling 3.5 million copies and by helping Goldwater secure the GOP nomination from Establishment "kingmakers...
...In 1972, both houses of Congress passed it, rejecting amendments that would have formally recognized traditional protections women have received from the law...
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...The feminists got Congress to unconstitutionally extend the deadline to pass ERA until 1982, but desperation made them use increasingly extreme tactics that backfired...
...The intellectuals and activists of the right viewed the Cold War as a titanic struggle between good and evil through which all political events were interpreted...
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...Most historians trace the shifting of the cultural divide in America among Protestants, Catholics, and Jews to the '60s revolution from which a new division between secularists and religious believers sprang...
...Donald Critchlow's political biography of Phyllis Schlafly is a useful corrective to most other histories of grassroots conservatism and closes the gap between historiography on feminists and their numerous opponents from their own sex...
...Read together with Triumph (Prima, 2001), Harry Crocker's recent history of the Church, Thomas Woods's new volume will fascinate, delight, and instruct in a manner worthy of the great 20th-century historian and polemicist Hilaire Belloc—who showed us how to look backwards to transform the future...
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...McCloskey BOOKS IN REVIEW However, Thomas Woods's approach is both religiously orthodox and more trustworthy historically, as signaled by the excellent bibliography and ample scholarly footnotes...
...But Woods notes, "Western civilization stands indebted to the Church for the university system, charitable work, international law, the sciences, and, important legal principles...
...To a degree, he traces the footsteps of best-selling author Thomas Cahill How the Irish Saved Civilization (Doubleday, 1995, see review on my website...
...Woods convincingly argues that modern experimental science started in the late Middle Ages due to the Christian belief that God created the world "ex nihil" and that there is an "order" in the universe that can gradually be known by men...
...Some commentators have seen a connection between the Austrian school's emphases on the subjective in judging economic value to John Paul II's use of personalist philosophy in his magisterial teaching...
...Western civilization owes far more to the Catholic Church than most people—Catholics included—often realize...
...In doing so, he wished the Church to enter the new millennium with slate wiped clean, having acknowledged in specific ways the crimes, sometimes horrendous, committed by its human elements throughout history...
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...Jean Buridan (1300-1358), for example, who served as Rector of the University of Paris, showed how money emerged freely and spontaneously on the market, first as a useful commodity and then as a medium of exchange...
...Like conservative intellectuals, grassroots conservatives were willing to look beyond their theological differences because of their shared commitment to fighting Communism...
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...Thomas Woods's new book could well take its place in any standard high school or university See what daily insight from -zro' eumayr quoted e w o o in Washington and to ances Davi Shawn and of curse, D tired ed by Wlady BOOKS IN REVIEW course on Western Civilization—that is, any course taught by someone willing to acknowledge honestly that the modern world and its institutions owe their existence to men and women deeply influenced by Catholic doctrine and moral teachings, as revealed through Scripture and tradition...
...Insofar as that broad creedal or theological consensus is the work of Christianity, Fr...
...A professional historian with degrees from Harvard and Columbia, he systematically explains to a reading public that has largely lost its historical memory "How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization" (the title of his new book from Regnery...
...This rediscovery can be of enormous importance, as we may well be seeing the disappearance of the West as a geographical entity...
...Loosely united at first, conservative intellectuals and activists were tightly bound together by the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater...
...He made a compelling case that the insight of these men reached their culmination in the Austrian school of economics...
...ERA was dead, and the activists opposed to it were going strong...
...In the campaign, Schlafly displayed her trademark talent for combining principled idealism with practical political activity...
...They remained active in the GOP and had found a potent issue in the left's undemocratic use of the Supreme Court to engineer social change...
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...That millennial apology is a perfect set-up for Professor Woods's splendid account of the many ways in which the Catholic faith created what we call Western civilization...
...The chapter on "The Church and Economics" should also draw special attention due to the increasingly hedonistic and market-driven nature of our culture...
...Professor Woods acknowledges, "In our media and popular culture, little is off-limits when it comes to parodying the Church...
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...During the Great Jubilee year, John Paul II issued a famous "apology," or act of contrition on behalf of the entire Catholic Church for the serious sins committed by its members over almost 2000 years of history...
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...In 1973, Roe v. Wade gave her claim added urgency and credibility...
...But by then Schlafly had built an army of conservative women activists who would march with her in the battle for which she became most famous...
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...Jaki contends, "science is not Western but Christian...
...In doing so, they are making a tremendous difference to the world today and the one they will leave behind...
...They gave the states seven years to ratify it...
...Woods's expertise in this area shows in another of his books The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy (Lexington Books, 2005...
...Another great 20th-century economist, Murray Rothbard, devoted a lengthy section of a critically acclaimed history of economic thought to the insights of the late Scholastics, whom he described as brilliant social thinkers and economic analysts...
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...In this chapter Woods points out that not only did noted economic historian Joseph Schumpeter acknowledge the contributions of the late Scholastics to modern economics, but "it is they who come nearer than does any other group to having been 'founders' of scientific economics...
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...Reaching bookstores almost simultaneously with the end of John Paul's magnificent pontificate, Woods's book establishes with sober confidence that the great majority of the institutions that define the West and that are increasingly exported throughout the world are the product of Catholicism and of believing Catholics...
...She organized women at the grassroots to "STOP ERA" and succeeded because the feminists lacked a comparable organization and relied on an expensive media campaign...
...Students, to the extent that they know anything at all about the Catholic Church, are typically familiar only with alleged instances of Church `corruption.' The story of Catholicism, as far as they know it, is one of ignorance, repression, and stagnation...
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...But Critchlow discovered that this realignment began much earlier in the grassroots anti-Communist movement...
...McCloskey is a priest of Opus Dei and research fellow at the Faith and Reason Institute based in Washington, D.C...
...ERA sounded innocuous, stating simply that "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex...
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