Rodney Stark Quotes:
Ocupation: Professor
Life:
That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships-although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.
source: Rodney Stark (2007). “The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success”, p.48, Random House
topic: Christian, Religious, Technology, Forthcoming, Western Society, New Technology
