The second one thousand years : ten people who defined a millennium - Neuhaus, Richard John. (Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 2001)
Gregory VII and the politics of the spirit / Robert Louis Wilken -- The mind of Maimonides / David Novak -- Thomas Aquinas, a doctor for the ages / Romanus Cessario -- Dante, a party of one / Robert Hollander -- Columbus and the beginning of the world / Robert Royal -- Calvin and the Christian calling / Alister McGrath -- Pascal: the first modern Christian / Edward T. Oakes -- Rousseau and the revolt against reason / Mary Ann Glendon -- Abraham Lincoln and the last best hope / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- John Paul II and the crisis of humanism / George Weigel.
"The essays ... all previously appeared in First things: a monthly journal of religion and public life"--T.p. verso.
Keywords: Christian civilization; Civilization, Western