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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... seemed to me more profound and far- reaching than their respective ideas on free will and grace . They talked in very different styles . How they spoke was as different as what they said . Did not this difference in style point to more ...
... 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 ...
... seemed equally adept at preaching in either the Scholastic or the humanistic style , a clue that they did not feel the incompatibil- ity so obvious to Erasmus . Michelangelo belongs squarely in cul- ture four , yet he wrote poetry of ...
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