The Crisis of Modernity (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas Book 64)

by Augusto Del Noce

The age-old enemy that today must be dispatched by the fullness of the Copernican Revolution is the Christian system which, supposedly, came together around the year 1000 “when the surviving elements of the Greek and Latin magisterium, of the Celtic and Frankish traditions, of the contributions by the Arabs and the Jews in the West, of the reflection of the doctors of the early Church and of the heretics of the first centuries and of an exoteric initiation that dates back to a time before the beginning of history, all fused together in an alloy so malleable that St Thomas Aquinas, working on it a few years later, was able to turn it into the most perfect expression of the doctrine that since then has become universal.”22