That will happen when and only when people are enlightened enough when they expect a G7 summit gathering dress up their leaders in what I wear around the house. News Flash people! we are never going to be postmodernists. This book made me realise how myopic so many current theologians, tech gurus, sociologists, historians and journalists are. Like the other volumes in The Story of Civilization, this is a. I was always bummed by the adage of calling our worldview theory. The Age of Faith surveys the medieval achievements and modern significance of Christian, Islamic, and Judaic life and culture.

What I take from the Age of Faith is that history is different from popular culture. Italian cooking is marginally inferior to English cooking. The age of faith : a history of medieval civilization-Christian, Islamic, and Judaic- from Constantine to Dante: A.D. By the way, I've followed a few recipes from top chefs based in Italy and I came away with the feeling that I was being punked. I kind of got my answer to the age old question as to why the Italians are so refined in their culture but also are so Mesozoic in some of their ways. I was most interested in England, France, Ireland, Italy and the Middle East mainly. By the way The Way of Kings is that book that is perfect in each of its page. I hurried my way through it, but if it worked for The Way of Kings, it ought to be good enough for any chunky book. The words in it are meant to be absorbed over a longer time than it took me. LoTR doesn't count because it is not a genuinely single work.īack to The Age of Faith. There is only one book above 1000 pages of my knowledge that has FUN stamped all over it in each page, and that book, is not LoTR. Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935), 558. For you see, this book was enormous, both in its physicality and its scope. This means that I blitzed my way through this book.

I began reading this book in January the 10th 0f 2021 and finished reading it on the 13th of April of the same year.

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