Editing Bruce Thornton (classicist) (section)

===History===
Thornton has described his opinions as opposed to the dominant, mainstream historical tradition about the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]].  He is an admirer of historian [[Christopher Dawson]].  He also subscribes to the [[Leo Strauss#Ancients and moderns|'Athens versus Jerusalem' thesis]] of [[Leo Strauss]], in which the interplay between [[Ancient Greece|classical Greek]] ideologies of [[rationality]] and the [[Judaeo-Christian]] spiritual philosophies resulted in the creation of [[Western philosophy|Western civilization]].<ref name=hoover>[http://www.hoover.org/multimedia/uk/16782686.html Peter Robinson interviews Fresno State Classicist Bruce Thornton about his new book Decline and Fall: Europe's Slow Suicide] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011193127/http://www.hoover.org/multimedia/uk/16782686.html |date=October 11, 2008 }}. [[Hoover Institution]]: ''[[Uncommon Knowledge]]''. Filmed on March 6, 2008. Accessed August 19, 2009.</ref>