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Lewis Weinstein's Reviews > Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
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UPDATE ... 15 years later, I'm planning to re-read Aristotle's Children along with Cahill's Gifts of the Jews ... so many unanswered and unanswerable questions
This is part of my summer research on a novel I am writing (a sequel to THE HERETIC), set in the humanist world of Lorenzo de Medici's Florence. It is fascinating for me to trace the changes in the Church's thinking as it first embraced Aristotle and then rejected him. Many of the issues - faith vs reason, the immortality of the soul, the purpose of life, the existence of God - are as relevant today as they were then. Now if I can only get some of this excitement (but not too much) into the lives of my characters in my novel-in-process, tentatively titled THE POPE'S CONSPIRACY.
This is part of my summer research on a novel I am writing (a sequel to THE HERETIC), set in the humanist world of Lorenzo de Medici's Florence. It is fascinating for me to trace the changes in the Church's thinking as it first embraced Aristotle and then rejected him. Many of the issues - faith vs reason, the immortality of the soul, the purpose of life, the existence of God - are as relevant today as they were then. Now if I can only get some of this excitement (but not too much) into the lives of my characters in my novel-in-process, tentatively titled THE POPE'S CONSPIRACY.
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Finished Reading
June 3, 2009
– Shelved
October 4, 2009
– Shelved as:
a-research
December 19, 2011
– Shelved as:
a-history-bio-memoir
November 21, 2022
– Shelved as:
to-read
November 25, 2022
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to-read
