Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages - Softcover

Rubenstein, Richard E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156030098 ISBN 13: 9780156030090

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin, 2004

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"Stimulating and thought-provoking reading, overturning caricatures of scholastic philosophy while suggesting how its insights can be applied to the present." --The Christian Century "A compelling account of how the rediscovery of Aristotle changed the way the Western world looked at humans, God, nature." --School Library Journal "An intellectual thriller. The real-life adventure of how the great thinker was found again... told with zest and excitement." --Jack Miles "Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography " "[An] accomplished, entertaining history of ideas." --Alibi PRAISE FOR ARISTOTLE'S CHILDREN "A superb storyteller who breathes new life into such fascinating figures as Peter Abelard, Albertus Magnus, St. Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, William of Ockham and Aristotle himself." -Los Angeles Times "Relevant and captivating." --R. Scott Appleby "Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame " "With a lively, engaging style, ARISTOTLE'S CHILDREN is a remarkable book that illuminates the long-standing relations between faith and reason." --Edward Grant "Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Indiana University " "Christianity's 'rediscovery' of Aristotle through Muslim Spain...challenges generations today to reclaim the interrelatedness of reason, science and religion." --John L. Esposito "author of What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam " "Anyone who wants to understand where we are going in the great political struggles over religion, read this amazing story." --Marc Gopin "author of Holy War: Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East "

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Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but forgotten, until a group of twelfth-century scholars rediscovered and translated the works of Aristotle. His ideas spread like wildfire across Europe, offering the scientific view that the natural world, including the soul of man, was a proper subject of study. The rediscovery of these ancient ideas sparked riots and heresy trials, caused major upheavals in the Catholic Church, and also set the stage for today's rift between reason and religion. In Aristotle's Children, Richard Rubenstein transports us back in history, rendering the controversies of the Middle Ages lively and accessible-and allowing us to understand the philosophical ideas that are fundamental to modern thought.

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• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0156030098
• ISBN 13: 9780156030090
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 386