Who made our minds?

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Loyola limbers up
The spear of the 'Counter-Reformation' founded the most revered and loathed religious order in the history of faith
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'Antichrist' versus 'Satan'
Christendom tore itself apart over whether a wafer was Christ's body or ... a wafer
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Luther's wrath...
How the 'protests' of a German friar launched a new spiritual movement of 'Protestants' and split the Catholic Church
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The smoke of Purgatory
Pardoners were selling something more valuable than cures, tulips or bitcoin. They were selling eternal life...
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Kindling for the Reformation
When Gutenberg first printed the 'Word of God', Rome felt the fury of an oppressed people who knew they'd been deceived for centuries
Sep 11 • 
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The man who resurrected Confucius
Wang Yangming and the neo-Confucian ideal
Sep 4 • 
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Aquinas 'completed' Aristotle
Then 'the last man to die a virgin' fell silent...
Aug 28 • 
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Meanwhile, in the monasteries...
The monks had not been idle, until many went mad
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Who made our minds?
Who made our minds?
I probe the greatest, cruellest and most beautiful minds of the past 5,000 years, inspired by my book, "The Soul: A History of the Human Mind". Join me exploring the ideas you haven't time to - free to your inbox every Thursday.
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