Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages.(Book Review)

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From: The Christian Century
Date: 20040713
Author:Miles, Margaret R.

Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages. By Richard E. Rubenstein. Harcourt, 368 pp., $27.00.

ABOUT 15 YEARS ago a proposal to eliminate the Th.D. degree was brought before a Harvard Divinity School faculty, meeting. Those favoring the proposal argued that the degree is anachronistic and offered by few graduate schools. But the late George Hunston Williams eloquently opposed eliminating the degree, recalling the historic moment in 1215 when the University of Paris faculty of theology successfully ...

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