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Title: The Victory of Reason
Review: This book does not really do justice to the title. The origins of reason in western thought are not adequately explored, with the contributions of Greek philosophers being almost completely ignored. And, even though Dr. Stark touches on the close relationship between faith and reason, he fails to adequately elucidate the nexus between Christ's calling to us as "brothers" and the medieval European notion that the world is indeed formed upon principles that our minds are capable of understanding.Also troubling is the author's attempt to credit the unique success of the British to capitalism, rather than to a strong protestant work ethic which persisted in Britain right up to the modern age.In the end, this book offers, not an exposition of the relationship between reason and Christianity, but an attempt to transform capitalism into absolute and salvific truth.
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