How long does it take to read The Closing of the Western Mind?
The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason
The Closing of the Western Mind by Charles Freeman takes about 8 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 37 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2002. 470 pages, about 129,250 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
How the early Christian Church bent the intellectual climate of the Mediterranean world from one of active and questioning inquiry to an encouragement of the subordination of the mind to authority and acceptance of incomprehensibility as the will of God.
Subjects: Church and state, Influence, Christianity, Classical influences, Hellenism, Western Civilization
