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A beginning was made already in the eighth century of translating the Bible into the vernacular languages, and by the end of the Middle Ages it was accessible to Frenchmen and Germans, Englishmen and Bohemians, Spaniards and Italians and Poles in their own tongues.
B.B. Warfield
The Bible the Book of Mankind during the (so-called) Dark Ages, the Bible had begun to prepare the ground for Europe's economic transformation. Monasteries began to develop the medieval mind, work ethic, technology, agriculture, double-entry bookkeeping, etc., that went on to create an unprecedented miracle in the later centuries.This Book Changed Everything, 23
It is true that the Bible lay at the very foundation of the entire social structure of the Middle Ages.
it is true, that there never were any Dark Ages. We rejoice that it is possible to paint them darker than they were. It is very largely a matter of point of slight.The Bible the Book of Mankind
The Christians of the Middle Ages remembered three things that we have forgotten: Drugs used for spiritual purposes. Serpent Gods. And human sacrifice.Return of the Dragon, 110
The myth of Christianity bringing about the "Dark Ages" in Europe... propagated successfully by French philosophes has long since been debunked as spurious, the fifteenth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1981 dismissing the label as completely unacceptable historically. In fact the early centuries of the Christian era in the West were, as Rodney Start points out, "one of the greatest innovative eras of mankind, as technology was developed and put into use on a scale no civilization had previously known."The Mission of God, 124
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