Conservatives: Get Over the Dark Ages [Open College series]

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Topics: The “Dark” Ages or The “Brilliant” Ages? // Chronology // Was there a Dark Age? // Why did the activity pick up after the year 1000? // Roger Bacon and Thomas Aquinas // Why is the debate significant today? // The verdict on Christianity // The verdict on modernity and the Enlightenment //  Why the Dark Ages matter to Christians and conservatives // The third form of conservatism, and my argument against it.

Transcription: Forthcoming

Sources:

• Anthony Esolen, Were the Middle Ages Dark? Professor at Thomas More College, Providence.
• Irving Kristol. Quoted in Rusher, 1995.
• Steven J. Lenzer, “Two Cheers for Postmodernism,” The Weekly Standard, October 25, 1999, p. 38.
• William Manchester, A World Lit Only By Fire, p. 5.
• William A. Rusher. The Ambiguous Legacy of the Enlightenment, University Press of America, 1995.
• Ernest van den Haag, in Rusher, ed. Ambiguous Legacy of the Enlightenment, p. 82. Professor at Fordham University.
• Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization.
• Medieval Timeline graphic.

Related:

• Stephen Hicks, “Religion and the Verdict of History.”
• Religion and capitalism? Alvaro Vargas Llosa
• St. Thomas Aquinas on whether sinners should be killed or heretics tolerated
• Christianity: Good or Bad for Mankind?

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