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Article: Family and Civilization.(Book review)
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- Catholic Insight
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- November 1, 2008
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Family and Civilization
WRITTEN BY Carle C. Zimmerman
EDITED BY James Kurth
PUBLISHED BY Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-933-85937-8,
Softcover, pp. 425, $19.04 CND
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Rather than simply listing all the destructive, anti-family tendencies of modern culture, Zimmerman takes a sweeping view of the history of the family in the Western world. His comparison of the ancient Greeks and Romans with modern Western civilization is particularly fruitful. Family and civilization unavoidably go hand-in-hand, according to the author, and the health of the one determines the health of the ...