Jul 10, 2008

CULTURE & FAITH: The Better Hour

For almost 2,000 years, Christians have been the primary shapers of Western culture. In the sixth-eighth centuries, it was the Irish monks who copied the Scriptures—and other manuscripts of the Western world—and preserved them, and Western learning along with them. It was Christians who founded the great medieval universities at Bologna, Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge, where students and faculty explored the wonders of creation. In the 16th century, John Calvin introduced universal education in Geneva. The great scientists—Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Kepler—all were believers. And there is no denying the influence of Christianity on America.

BreakPoint 24 Jun 2008

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