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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... important as what was said , even though the how and the what could never be neatly separated . When I began to study the Reformation , I was struck by the same thing . In the famous debate between Erasmus and Luther on free will , the ...
... important religion is as a force in the world and how we neglect studying it to our own peril . I will , then , talk mostly about religious figures and movements , yet I will do so insofar as they are expressions of the " cultures ...
... important religious figure . I do not find an obvious place among the cultures , for instance , for Ignatius of Loyola , the founder of my own religious order . If you imagine Western civili- zation as a vast ocean , you might imagine ...
... 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- plines for ...
... important Christian institutions in the Latin West , is not so easily categorized . Benedictines by definition renounce the world for the cloister , but in the cloister they center their lives on the liturgy , which they tra- ditionally ...