history of western civilization
What does the West owe to Christianity and Islam?: Civilizational inheritors
The line from Aquinas Aquinas died in 1274. He synthesized Aristotelian logic with Christian theology, established natural law, articulated just war doctrine, and laid groundwork for the scientific method.... Is 'Western civilization' a real thing or a brand?: Selective inheritors
The commentator In twelfth-century Cordoba, Ibn Rushd wrote commentaries on Aristotle so thorough that Latin Christendom called him "the Commentator" — the way they called Aristotle "the Philosopher." Aquinas built Catholic theology on Aristotle’s framework, and he encountered it...