The Victory of Reason Quotes

“While the other world religions emphasized mystery and intuition, Christianity alone embraced reason and logic as the primary guide to religious truth.”
― Rodney Stark, The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success

“Christianity was oriented to the future, while the other major religions asserted the superiority of the past. At least in principle, if not always in fact, Christian doctrines could always be modified in the name of progress as demonstrated by reason.”
― Rodney Stark, The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success

“Encouraged by the Scholastics and embodied in the great medieval universities founded by the church, faith in the power of reason infused Western culture, stimulating the pursuit of science and the evolution of democratic theory and practice.”
― Rodney Stark, The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success