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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... Rome working on a book about sermons preached in the Sistine Chapel during the Renaissance . They then helped me sort out in a somewhat new way the tangle of issues raised by another area of my research , the Protestant - Catholic ...
... Rome ) influenced early Christians in important ways . Aristotle emerged with startling brilliance with the translation into Latin of his full corpus in the High Middle Ages , after which he dominated the history of the sciences and ...
... Rome's greatness and its sublime destiny . Through statuary , not a canonical scripture , they got to know the gods . Into this intensely visual culture Christians were born , and of it they breathed all the days of their lives . In ...
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