List Price: 27.95 Individual store prices may vary. Why have we held these wrongheaded ideas so strongly and for so long? And if our beliefs are wrong, what, in fact, is the truth? In each chapter, Stark takes on a well-established anti-Catholic myth, gives a fascinating history of how each myth became the conventional wisdom, and presents a startling picture of the real truth. In this stunning, powerful, and ultimately persuasive book, Rodney Stark, one of the most highly regarded sociologists of religion and bestselling author of The Rise of. Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History. But what if these long-held beliefs were all wrong? In this stunning, powerful, and ultimately persuasive book, Rodney Stark, one of the most highly regarded sociologists of religion and the bestselling author of The Rise of Christianity, argues that some of our most firmly held ideas about history, ideas that paint the Catholic Church in the least positive light are, in fact, fiction. Bearing False Witness by Rodney Stark is a generous bookthough more importantly, a judicious one. Why have we held these wrongheaded ideas so firmly and for so long And if our beliefs are wrong, what is the truth In each chapter, Stark takes on a well.

Before earning his PhD at the University. Stark is the former president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and of the Association for the Sociology of Religion. Bearing False Witness: Debunking centuries of anti-Catholic history.

As we all know and as many of our well-established textbooks have argued for decades, the Inquisition was one of the most frightening and bloody chapters in Western history, Pope Pius XII was anti-Semitic and rightfully called 'Hitler's Pope,' the Dark Ages were a stunting of the progress of knowledge to be redeemed only by the secular spirit of the Enlightenment, and the religious Crusades were an early example of the rapacious Western thirst for riches and power. Products > Bearing False Witness: Debunking centuries of anti-Catholic history.

Bearing false witness stark