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For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery QUOTES

1 " As the historian Edward Grant explained, 'It is indisputable that modern science emerged in the seventeenth century in Western Europe and nowhere else'.
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The crucial question is: Why?

My answer to this question is as brief as it is unoriginal: Christianity depicted God as a rational, responsive, dependable, and omnipotent being and the universe as his personal creation, thus having a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting human comprehension. "

― Rodney Stark , For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery