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The Not-So-Dark Ages

The Not-So-Dark Ages

In this episode, John up-ends a four-hundred-year-old fallacy that has been promoted since the Enlightenment: the Christian faith is a brake on scientific and literary progress. The Dark Ages - were they really that dark?

Undeceptions with John Dickson

January 30, 202211m 58sbonus

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Show Notes

John Dickson's Bullies and Saints is a super-podcast providing excerpts of the book by the same name - a no-holds-barred look at the best and worst of church history.

In this episode, John up-ends a four-hundred-year-old fallacy that has been promoted since the Enlightenment: the Christian faith is a brake on scientific and literary progress. The Dark Ages - were they really that dark?

Click here to buy a copy of Bullies and Saints, or here to own the entire audiobook.

And for even more on the history of Christianity, and how well the church is mirroring the message that Jesus handed on, head over to the Undeceptions website.

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religionhistoryChristianityJesusancientapologeticsfaithethicscultureJohn DicksonBiblebiblical studiestheologyChristian historyphilosophyscience and faithmoralitysocial capitalethics in societyhistorical Jesusresurrectionmiraclesancient Romeancient Greececlassicsliterature