A Rational Beginning

 

INTRODUCTION

 

Contrary to anti-Catholic screeds, Christianity from its earliest beginnings embraced scholarship and a rational view of the cosmos.  This love of learning dispelled the superstition of its pagan contemporaries laying the foundations for the development of modern science.  And this early Christian curriculum incorporated the classical Greek texts of antiquity to no less extent than the most renowned pagan schools of then extant.

 

Indeed the Catholic Church does not equate, and has never equated at any time of its existence, learning with paganism.  But rather exactly the opposite was true.

 

ATHENS, ALEXANDRIA, and ROME.

 

In late antiquity, 150-750 A.D.

 

REFERENCES

 

1.      “City and School In Late Antique Athens and Alexandria” by Edward J. Watts, University of California Press (2006).

2.      “The World of Late Antiquity” by Peter Brown, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London (1971) reprinted 2020.