The Spine Of Western Culture
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Author | : Carlos Wiggen |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2018-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1546294007 |
Reviving Nietzsches use of the ancient gods Apollo and Dionysus as notions for seeing the emergence, growth, and imminent and final decay of Western culture, Carlos Wiggen goes through the historical process by way of selected interpretations of this cultures drama, thought, and social structure. Is the spine of a radically new culture already forming? If so, what is its essence?
Author | : Patricia Ranft |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2012-12-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0739174339 |
In recent years numerous scholars in disciplines not traditionally associated with theology have promoted an interesting thesis. They maintain that one particular Christian doctrine, the Incarnation, had an inordinate influence on the shape of Western culture. The doctrine, they say, was so radical that it mandated an epistemological break with pagan society’s perception of the universe and forced Christians to form a new culture. As medieval society worked out the consequences of the doctrine, it gave birth to those attitudes, institutions, and actions that define modern Western culture. The claims are well argued, but it is a historically untested thesis. How the Doctrine of Incarnation Shaped Western Culture is a response to the situation. It investigates whether the presence of the doctrine had the definitive effect on Western culture that so many scholars claim it did. It searches early Christian and medieval sources for evidence and concludes that the doctrine had a dominant effect on the developing culture. No other idea was as omnipresent or pervasive in Western society during its formative stage as the Incarnation doctrine. The doctrine was influential in the establishment of every major facet of Western culture. Its paradox, irrationality, and juxtaposition of opposites created a tension that cried out for resolution, and society responded accordingly. The ideas within the doctrine acted as catalysts for cultural change. As a result, the West developed its most characteristic traits and forged a path that was uniquely its own.
Author | : Roger Dunkle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Civilization, Western |
ISBN | : 9780930888329 |
Author | : Henry Bamford Parkes |
Publisher | : New York : Knopf, 1969 [c1968] |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Civilization, Medieval |
ISBN | : |
A richly documented cultural history of Europe from the decay of the Roman Empire to the death of Shakespeare.
Author | : Michael Babcock |
Publisher | : Ingram |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012-06-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780985750701 |
A survey of the rise and development of western culture with an emphasis on the values, beliefs, and ideas that are distinctive to the western tradition.
Author | : Morris Kline |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 1964-12-31 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0195345452 |
This book gives a remarkably fine account of the influences mathematics has exerted on the development of philosophy, the physical sciences, religion, and the arts in Western life.
Author | : Lesslie Newbigin |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 1988-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1467419087 |
How can biblical authority be a reality for those shaped by the modern world? This book treats the First World as a mission field, offering a unique perspective on the relationship between the gospel and current society by presenting an outsider's view of contemporary Western culture.
Author | : Donna Carol Voss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780990622673 |
A clear-eyed, brutally honest love letter to America wherein Donna Carol Voss makes the case for Western civilization.
Author | : Brian Tierney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780394311135 |
Author | : Samuel Gregg |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2019-06-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1621579069 |
"Gregg's book is the closet thing I've encountered in a long time to a one-volume user's manual for operating Western Civilization." —The Stream "Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization offers a concise intellectual history of the West through the prism of the relationship between faith and reason." —Free Beacon The genius of Western civilization is its unique synthesis of reason and faith. But today that synthesis is under attack—from the East by radical Islam (faith without reason) and from within the West itself by aggressive secularism (reason without faith). The stakes are incalculably high. The naïve and increasingly common assumption that reason and faith are incompatible is simply at odds with the facts of history. The revelation in the Hebrew Scriptures of a reasonable Creator imbued Judaism and Christianity with a conviction that the world is intelligible, leading to the flowering of reason and the invention of science in the West. It was no accident that the Enlightenment took place in the culture formed by the Jewish and Christian faiths. We can all see that faith without reason is benighted at best, fanatical and violent at worst. But too many forget that reason, stripped of faith, is subject to its own pathologies. A supposedly autonomous reason easily sinks into fanaticism, stifling dissent as bigoted and irrational and devouring the humane civilization fostered by the integration of reason and faith. The blood-soaked history of the twentieth century attests to the totalitarian forces unleashed by corrupted reason. But Samuel Gregg does more than lament the intellectual and spiritual ruin caused by the divorce of reason and faith. He shows that each of these foundational principles corrects the other’s excesses and enhances our comprehension of the truth in a continuous renewal of civilization. By recovering this balance, we can avoid a suicidal winner-take-all conflict between reason and faith and a future that will respect neither.