This infamous phrase of Hillaire Belloc is here explained by James V. Schall. Excerpt:
Modern science itself has medieval Christian origins. Without the notion of a real world, itself not God, worth investigating together with the notion of real secondary causes, no science would be possible. Those societies that embraced a voluntarist origin of things never developed science because one cannot investigate what can constantly be otherwise.
Schall goes on to mention the Pope's Regensburg speech. My comments thereon are in Pope Benedict's Regensburg Speech and Muslim Oversensitivity.
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