Christianity and the Development of Human Capital: Challenging the Narratives

Tags: Philosophy, World History

05/26/2022 Lipton Matthews

While the standard secular narrative is that Christianity held back science and human development, history tells a different story, one of literacy and the development of human capital.

Original Article: “Christianity and the Development of Human Capital: Challenging the Narratives”

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