Re-Envisioning Christian Humanism
For a number of reasons, scholastic humanism ultimately failed. The scholastic ambition of synthesizing all available knowledge ...
greatness of man and urges the subordination of our baser instincts to reason so that we may live to up to our divine image, he ...
merely aim at character formation in a general sense but often emphasized the shaping of Christian virtues in particular. More s ...
words, eloquence—was‘one of the fairest and rarest gifts that God doth give to man’.^69 Despite this ostensibly Christian platfo ...
his inaugural lecture at Wittenberg in 1518.^74 In our day, an unceasingflow of publications document a more substantial and, ar ...
knowledge of its purpose.^78 Moreover, Polanyi noted the importance of a ‘personal coefficient’in science, such as‘the intuition ...
to‘an intellectually vulnerable self-blindness among self-declared naturalists’.^83 The reductive and fundamentalist naturalism ...
based on a particular interpretive framework inherited from tradition and verified by personal experience. We should think of th ...
friendship, and its highest form occurs in those religions in which God is the absolute,personalground of communion.^94 Thus for ...
humanities professor mentioned above, already complained in the early eight- eenth century that universities were so enchanted w ...
arts university would be Christian insofar as it conducts its research to promote human dignity and serve humanity according to ...
8 Scripture in theStudium and the Rise of the Humanities David Lyle Jeffrey Almost everyone knows this riddle:‘What has Athens t ...
the rhetorical barrier erected between faith and rational discourse by advocates of liberal learning since the Enlightenment. Th ...
Nordic authors we owe to Christians, even and perhaps especially to monastic communities of Christians.^3 To be sure, there were ...
Whatever we now may think of Jerome’s archaic nuptial analogy, it is clear enough that the wall of partition between pagan and b ...
flexibly, a kind of ecclesiastical mothering which, together, have birthed and nurtured Western intellectual life down to the pr ...
reading the Bible, sufficient to undergird an intelligent appreciation of Jewish texts in a gentile culture. He was writing, aft ...
wake of twentieth-century deconstructionism; even as does his adage that‘it is a mark of good and distinguished minds to love th ...
meaning‘hidden’in the text, separating‘fruit’from‘chaff’—the prototype of what would be called a millennium and a half later, by ...
The liberal arts as we know them did not begin to emerge in their familiar form in Christian Europe until the work of the polyma ...
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