Sentences with phrase «classical culture»

The best Classics teachers in independent school demonstrate to their students the influence of classical cultures on today's world, from the building blocks the languages provided for modern grammar to the cognates that inform the vocabulary of English and the Romance languages.
Newbigin is drawing on Charles Norris Cochrane, Christianity in Classical Culture (1940) and Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (1958).
Of course, the interface of Christianity with classical culture is very different from the church's interface with the current U.S. economic - military hegemony and the shameless power of the market to damage human communities.
So influential were these celestial travelers on classical culture that the names of our seven days of the week can be traced back to them.
His concern with the social location of poverty is part of his larger effort to understand the character of Christianity as it negotiated its place in a still durable classical culture.
I have been deeply influenced by East Asian classical culture, tribal societies and their myths, and feminists and liberationists among contemporary thinkers, all of whom I would include in the ongoing conversation.
Enculturation was an integral part of conversion — a long process of «detoxification» in which the church helped the catechumen critically to examine classical culture and gradually to extricate his or her life from it.
Enlightenment philosophers wanted to recover the habits of reason and learning they thought were embodied in ancient Classical culture.
It always maintained the lively, even painful, consciousness of its being secondary vis - a-vis classical culture and the old covenant.
That is why, today more than ever, it is difficult to grasp the truly revelatory aspects of Christian doctrine without some sense of the sadness of the Greeks, whether acquired through classical culture or simply intuited by conscientious attention to things made manifest.
It swings between the wildly absurd and creatively inspired, with doses of adult content, as a revered classical culture is offset by contemporary themes.
Greece's classical culture meets modern metropolis as you pass through Athens, Mycenae, Olympia and more.
Greatly influenced by classical culture and literature, his flowing use of paint was reminiscent of the Abstract Expressionists but without the heroic pretentions.
The quotation captures the noble project of the book in this way: «The old Catholic religion - culture of Europe is dead... the inheritance of classical culture... has been destroyed, overwhelmed by a vast influx of new knowledge, by the scientific mass civilisation of the modern world.
So Venice — while admittedly also a bastion of thoughtless tourism — united both her interest in classical culture, and her penchant for taking a political stance.
Christianity itself was used to sanctify and perpetuate the hierarchical society and world view of classical culture.
Augustine's life and thought became a symbol of the union of classical culture and Hebrew - Christian religion.
Augustine, with an astounding sensitivity and self - awareness, powerfully expressed both the breakdown and the rescue of classical culture.
As C. N. Cochrane says in his Christianity and Classical Culture, the Christian faith discovered a depth in human personality which classical culture had not envisaged.10
Even Christian leaders who fulminated against this sort of assimilation accepted much of classical culture.
Europe, unlike Byzantium, never thought of itself as the legitimate heir of classical culture.
The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity is established as an interdisciplinary center for research into the ancient Near East, the classical cultures of Greece and Rome, and the emergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islamic studies.
- 5) THE CLASSICAL CULTURES OF GREECE AND ROME (490 B.C.E. TO 476 C.E.).
Karah Hagins has degrees from the University of Georgia (UGA) in philosophy, classical culture, and political science.
Unlike these others, he left America early in his career to live and work in Italy, where he has drawn inspiration from European literature, classical culture and the Italian landscape.
He is most well known for his large paintings populated with scribbled marks, calligraphic or graffiti - like words, letters, numbers, and references to Classical culture.
An interest in classical culture was stimulated by the discovery of the ancient Roman cities of Herculaneum in 1738 and Pompeii in 1748.
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