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Charles Freeman
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Great that you are reading my lengthy book, Arianne. I hope you are enjoying it. Good reading, Charles Freeman.
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Lovely review, Arianne. Needs rereading to get the depth of it. Terrifying parallels with Trump especially the Christian support.
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Thanks, Ron, for your perceptive review. Well worth waiting for. Thank you for your kind words on my mind- it is not nearly as good as you make out. Y
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From the author, Charles Freeman. I make no claim to be a great author but my editor Richard Milbank is one of the best around and he read the full sc
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Rodney Stark has made some big claims for Christianity with which,as a historian, I disagree. In his other books, he assumes that western so-called ci
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“It was a mark of Constantine's political genius and flexibility that he realized it was better to utilize a religion(Christianity) that already had a well-established structure of authority as a prop to the imperial regime rather than exclude it as a hindrance.”
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“In his play Antigone, Sophocles summed it up: Wonders are many and none more wonderful than man . . . In the meshes of his woven nets, cunning of mind, ingenious man . . . He snares the lighthearted birds and the tribes of savage beasts, and the creatures of the deep seas . . . He puts the halter round the horse’s neck And rings the nostrils of the angry bull. He has devised himself a shelter against the rigours of frost and the pelting rains. Speech and science he has taught himself, and artfully formed laws for harmonious civic life . . . Only against death he fights in vain. But clear intelligence—a force beyond measure— moves to work both good and ill . . . When he obeys the laws and honors justice, the city stands proud . . . But man swerves from side to side, and when the laws are broken, and set at naught, he is like a person without a city, beyond human boundary, a horror, a pollution to be avoided.29 The”
― The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith & the Fall of Reason
― The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith & the Fall of Reason
“Theological contemplation contemplates through a light infused by God, but the philosopher contemplates through an acquired disposition of wisdom.’ The two philosophies were linked, however, in that Albert believed that when God acted he did not do so through sudden unnatural interventions but through the observable causation of natural events.”
― The Reopening of the Western Mind: The Resurgence of Intellectual Life from the End of Antiquity to the Dawn of theEnlightenment
― The Reopening of the Western Mind: The Resurgence of Intellectual Life from the End of Antiquity to the Dawn of theEnlightenment
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