One final thing needs to be mentioned regarding the day to day life and faith of the common man during the High Catholic Age. What I’m about to say can be relat...
We all know the story of the Galileo and the ignorant and superstitious Catholic Church: Galileo, the enlightened scientist, said, “The earth goes around the su...
After a month, I am now getting back to my “Ways of the Worldviews” series. We now come to the Renaissance. All too often in most history books, the...
The High Catholic Age didn’t just give the world monasteries, advances in technology, universities, revolutions in philosophy, the foundation for the natural sc...
In this next to last post about the High Catholic Age (aka. “The Middle Ages”), I want to focus on something that may come as a surprise to most people—indeed I...
I want to note that what much of what is contained in this post was covered in a few previous posts I wrote in my series about Richard Dawkins. Still, for what ...
The ground-breaking achievement in philosophy during the High Catholic Age was the revival of the study of Aristotle. Throughout the Byzantine Age, Christian th...
In my last post, I made it a point to show that one of the distinguishing features in the universities during the High Catholic Age was their fascination with a...
As we continue our overview of what has been traditionally called “The Middle Ages,” but what I have chosen to call “The High Catholic Age,” we now come to the ...
There has often been a misguided assumption by many who have this strange impression that before the Crusades, Christianity had been a largely pacifist and “ant...