Re-Envisioning Christian Humanism
by motives of power and profit is creatively to appropriate the Christian humanist tradition. For this reason, Christian humanis ...
convictioncharacterizingoursecularageisthattheworldasawhole,orat least all of it that really matters, can be described in purely ...
fixed element in Western culture’.^39 It harbours no theocratic yearnings, but ‘conserves’, as Lee Oser puts it,‘the radical mid ...
Christian church’s succumbing to the temptations of political power through- out history provides a powerful antidote to any rom ...
humanism as comprised by the three aspects of Renaissance humanism, social humanism, and anthropological humanism. Darren Provos ...
Döllinger’s attempt at mediating between humanistic concerns and Roman Catholic ecclesial interests in defining the purpose of h ...
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Part I Christian Humanism: Theological Roots and Their Enduring Significance ...
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1 Patristic Humanism The Beginning of ChristianPaideia John Behr ‘The glory of God is the living human being.’^1 These words by ...
The starting point for such reflection, naturally, begins with the opening chapters of Genesis. Thefirst creation account in Gen ...
exaltation in glory. Identified as the Lamb of God from the beginning of the Gospel, Christ is crucified, naturally, at the time ...
for instance by bribing the authorities or trying to persuade him to recant. While journeying slowly but surely towards a grueso ...
back to the ancient Greeks: it is only by suffering, that is, by experience, that we truly learn. But the Christian tradition as ...
separation—apostasy—from God, that we come to value life, knowing that we do not have life in ourselves, but depend for it upon ...
themselves (and such divine virtue takes training, a long pedagogy). By this sacrificial life, the creature chooses freely to ex ...
creator: taking dust from the earth which I now am and mixing in his power, he now,finally, fashions a true, living, human being ...
to Christ; and again, as we know that neitherfire, nor food, nor iron, nor any other of the elements, is of itself most useful, ...
and astronomy, that is, that they are the handmaidens of philosophy, we may say of philosophy itself in relation to Christianity ...
every kind of discourse, both foreign and Greek, both spiritual and political, both divine and human.^20 Having pursued all thes ...
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