Aristotle's Children: How Christian, Muslims and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages Audiobook

" There is a lot of interesting material here in the first seven chapters--the author describes how Aristotle's work was largely lost in the West, how it was preserved in the Islamic world, and then translated in the 11th century in Muslim Spain and brought back to Latin Western Europe. He relates the development of Aristotelian thought in the high medieval Church, its impact on the growth of scholastic thought in the universities, its entanglement in controversies between the Dominicans and the Franciscans, and its eventual ossification as the Catholic status quo by the end of the middle ages. A number of the author's observations on the general medieval historical framework in which Aristotelian intellectual took place are rather suspect, and the final chapter about "faith vs reason" in our own times does not add much to the book, Recommended for you medievalists out there. "

" It's fascinating to find out that actual stuff went on between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance. Interesting stuff, too. "

" Very enlightening and topical for today's issues with faith and science, inter-cultural understanding, etc. "

" Great study of how Aristotle was re-discovered, admired, adopted and transmitted through the working and cooperation of Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Middle Ages. Great story of how these diverse religions could pursue common truth and common goals. "

" Not as readable as you might have been told it is, but if you're looking for a "quick and dirty" way to follow the impact of Classical thought on Medieval/Renaissance thought, this is the way to go. "

" Well written examination of the effort of the Scholastic philosophers to marry religion and faith. "

" Good book about what the subtitle says, how the works of Aristotle were rediscovered in Europe and the effect that had on transforming thought in the middle ages. "

" Superb history of philosophy and well reasoned exposition of western prejudice. "

" A well done book on the effect Aristotle's natural science had on theology after it was "refound" in Spain where it had been safely kept by the Turks until the middle ages. A very good historical and philosophical study of the eventual attempt to reconcile faith and reason. "

" There was a time when Muslims, Christians and Jews worked side by side to understand the world. "

" good non-fiction history of the travels of Aristotles thought. interesting info on Boethius & Peter of Ablhard "

" A must read for anyone who wants to understand the spread of knowledge from the ancient world to the modern world. This book changed much of what I was taught in school and helps explain the complexities of our current world of 'knowledge'. "

" About time someone wrote an insightful book like this. kinda reminds me of Eugen Jarecki's American Way of War. will add my rating when I am finished reading. more later "