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How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization Hardcover – May 2, 2005
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· Why modern science was born in the Catholic Church
· How Catholic priests developed the idea of free-market economics five hundred years before Adam Smith
· How the Catholic Church invented the university
· Why what you know about the Galileo affair is wrong
· How Western law grew out of Church canon law
· How the Church humanized the West by insisting on the sacredness of all human life
No institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Church—and in ways that many of us have forgotten or never known. How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization is essential reading for recovering this lost truth.
- Print length280 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRegnery History
- Publication dateMay 2, 2005
- Dimensions6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100895260387
- ISBN-13978-0895260383
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"Puts the Church back where it should be: at the center of values, science, laws, and institutions of Western civilization." -- Dr. Paul Legutko, Stanford University
"Superb and scholarly.... Highly recommended." -- Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, professor emeritus, the City University of New York
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- Publisher : Regnery History
- Publication date : May 2, 2005
- Language : English
- Print length : 280 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0895260387
- ISBN-13 : 978-0895260383
- Item Weight : 1.15 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #125,907 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
About the author

Thomas E. Woods, Jr., was educated at Harvard and Columbia University (where he received his PhD), and was honored with the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award in Vienna in 2019. Woods is the New York Times bestselling author of 13 books, which in turn have been translated into over a dozen languages, and his book The Church and the Market won the first prize in the Templeton Enterprise Awards.
Woods has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, FOX News, FOX Business, C-SPAN, and other outlets, produced his own program for EWTN, and he is the host of The Tom Woods Show. He was a creator of the self-taught, K-12 Ron Paul homeschool curriculum. He lives in central Florida with his wife and five daughters.


























