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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... images , especially imperial portraits , to communicate authority and responsibility . It was through material culture that the inhabitants of the empire imbibed the myth of Rome's greatness and its sublime destiny . Through statuary ...
... images . Yet Christian belief that Jesus , for all the claims of transcendency made about him , walked and talked , suf- fered and died as a human being living in a certain time and place almost inevitably and rather soon led to ...
... East in the eighth century , erupted again in the West in the sixteenth , with cries of idolatry , paganism , and superstition hurled at those who venerated images and who seemed to put trust in " ceremonies Athens and Jerusalem 21.
John W. O'Malley. images and who seemed to put trust in " ceremonies . " This was a defining moment for culture four . Not only did most Protestant groups attack the use of images and then often the images them- selves , but they also ...
... image and likeness , into its own value system , in order to make sense of it . A more secular example can be found in the schools . Over the past hundred years the form and methods of culture two have gradually encroached upon the ...