NUECHTERLEIN, JAMES A. Commentary Magazine. 2004.

Abstract:

When I was in graduate school in the early 1960’s, a fellow student amused the rest of us by circulating a course description he had run across in the catalog of an obscure Bible college in the South. The course was a standard yearlong introduction to Western civilization; according to the description, the first semester would cover European history from Greek and Roman origins “up to the so-called Enlightenment.”

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