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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... early Christianity into the Middle Ages . Between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries , through a series of eureka- experiences , what we call renaissances and reformations , they achieved a new coherence and a new force that ...
... early third century the fierce Christian apologist and polemicist Tertullian asked the question that pro- vides the basic structure for the way I develop my theses about the cultures : What , he asked , has Athens to do with Jerusalem ...
... early church ( genuine and forged ) the stan- dard , long lost from view , for the way things were supposed to be . He invoked ancient sources to justify his revolution . As is true of so many revolutions , Gregory fought this one in ...
... earliest centuries . Paul in his speech on the Areopagus , as reported in Acts 17 , seems to provide warrant for thinking that aspects of Athens , the secular city , might have some- thing to do with Jerusalem , the sacred city : What ...
... 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 other academic disci ...