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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... and of it they breathed all the days of their lives . In this situation Christian- ity itself would eventually be defined most strikingly through ma- terial culture . It was this culture that would touch Athens and Jerusalem 1 19.
... lives , or even more often , as they gathered to worship . The other cultures may have touched them in various ways . This one was ever before them . The origins and much of the subsequent history especially of cul- tures two and three ...
... the face of scientific , professional , technological , and other " practical " training indeed , in all the debates over the very purpose of edu- cation . Even when the cultures live in peaceful coexistence with one 24 INTRODUCTION.
John W. O'Malley. Even when the cultures live in peaceful coexistence with one another , each tends to understand the others on its own terms . Lit- urgy , for instance , belongs fundamentally in culture four , but the other three ...
... lives on the liturgy , which they tra- ditionally have enhanced with architecture and music of surpassing beauty . In the Middle Ages great abbots like those of Cluny , and even those of the austere Citeaux , knew their Cicero and ...