Re-Envisioning Christian Humanism
steer, sweat and dispute and struggle’.^59 Erasmus writes that there were other sileniin history, but the greatest of all was Ch ...
syllogistic propositions but in the heart itself and in the whole life’.He expresses his hope that‘enemies of the Christian name ...
The major portion of theEnchiridion, after the foundational ideas associated with spiritual warfare have been laid out, is devot ...
Erasmus describes what a lifefilled with charity would look like: Do not tell me now that charity consists in being an assiduous ...
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Part III Christian Humanism, Education, and the Arts ...
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7 The Cultural Context for Re-Envisioning Christian Humanism Jens Zimmermann TrueChristian Humanismis, however, still an unfinis ...
question in this discussion, identified most clearly by Albert Schweitzer, was the question of anthropology, namely, what does i ...
and action...in which moral judgments were understood as governed by impersonal standards justified by a shared conception of th ...
opened to totalizing, inhumane ideologies.^10 Thus, the fatalflaw of secularism consists in its dogmatic separation of humanflou ...
importance of addressing the anthropological question‘what is human nature’ within a framework open to transcendence.^16 The deb ...
being as oriented towards God in freedom and responsibility,^20 the only defensible Christian anthropology is a negative one, be ...
whether we can reform ailing social institutions based on our contemporary, often radically different imagination. Certainly one ...
Thus, the following sections will offer a definition of Christian humanism and point to its enduring relevance for Western cultu ...
made in the image of the living God to oppose pagan idol worship with its often inhumane demands and rituals.^32 The virtual exp ...
Christ had always been the telos intended by God for human beings. Accord- ing to Ireneaus, thefirst human beings were but infan ...
when he wrote,‘that the human being is free in his essence was known neither to Plato nor Aristotle....Christianity taught that ...
Christian humanism established both the dignity of the human and the dignity of nature. This is the origin of the careful synthe ...
made use of all sources of truth, but since there is one true philosophy, which is one true way of life, the goal of Christian e ...
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