Four Cultures of the WestHarvard University Press, 2004 M10 15 - 261 pages The workings of Western intelligence in our day--whether in politics or the arts, in the humanities or the church--are as troubling as they are mysterious, leading to the questions: Where are we going? What in the world were we thinking? By exploring the history of four "cultures" so deeply embedded in Western history that we rarely see their instrumental role in politics, religion, education, and the arts, this timely book provides a broad framework for addressing these questions in a fresh way. |
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... Protestant - Catholic conflicts of the sixteenth century . In my book on the Sistine ser- mons I had to deal directly with the relationship between " the new learning " of humanism and its medieval antecedent ( and some- times enemy ) ...
... Protestant groups attack the use of images and then often the images them- selves , but they also abolished the Liturgy of the Hours and tended to strip the Eucharistic liturgy down to bare table and words , if not to abolish it ...
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