PRAISE FOR ARISTOTLE'S CHILDREN
"A superb storyteller who breathes new life into such fascinating figures as Peter Abelard, Albertus Magnus, St. Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, William of Ockham and Aristotle himself." -Los Angeles Times
"[An] accomplished, entertaining history of ideas."
-- Alibi
"Anyone who wants to understand where we are going in the great political struggles over religion, read this amazing story."
-- author of Holy War: Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East
"Christianity's 'rediscovery' of Aristotle through Muslim Spain...challenges generations today to reclaim the interrelatedness of reason, science and religion."
-- author of What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam
"With a lively, engaging style, ARISTOTLE'S CHILDREN is a remarkable book that illuminates the long-standing relations between faith and reason."
-- Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Indiana University
"Relevant and captivating."
-- Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
"An intellectual thriller. The real-life adventure of how the great thinker was found again… told with zest and excitement."
-- Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography
"A compelling account of how the rediscovery of Aristotle changed the way the Western world looked at humans, God, nature."
-- School Library Journal
"Stimulating and thought-provoking reading, overturning caricatures of scholastic philosophy while suggesting how its insights can be applied to the present."
-- The Christian Century
