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This book by a stellar group of scholars provides a fascinating look at the religious and social history of the West over the past one thousand years. The contributors each write about a key individual from each century of the second millennium--Gregory VII, Maimonides, Aquinas, Dante, Columbus, Calvin, Pascal, Rousseau, Lincoln, and John Paul II--treating these pivotal figures as prisms through which to see their times. Gathered from the pages of the magazine First Things, these insightful narratives not only open intriguing windows on key points in the development of the Christian West but also provide a panoramic view from which to comprehend all of modern history.
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