The Traditions of the Western World: Early modern period and the recent period
Author : Jack H. Hexter
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Page : 952 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Civilization, Western
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Author : Jack H. Hexter
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Page : 952 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Civilization, Western
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Author : Jack H. Hexter
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Page : pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Civilization, Western
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Author : J. H. Hexter
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 26,62 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 9780819111807
Originally published by Rand McNally in 1967 and now out-of-print, the first edition of The Traditions of the Western World, edited by J.H. Hexter with the assistance of John W. Snyder, Peter Riesenberg, Franklin L. Ford, and Klaus Epstein, provided teachers with a wide variety of historical documents to introduce the college reader to the traditions of the Western world. This shortened version of the text concentrates on Riesenberg's section. The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, and the Reformation, as well as a portion of Ford's, The Early Modern Period.
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Page : 917 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Civilization, Western
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Author : Privatdozent Dr Theol Paul Silas Peterson
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Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 2020-11-15
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ISBN : 9781481315074
The Reformation was the single most important event of the early modern period of Western civilization. What started out as a pastoral conflict about the sale of grace for money ultimately became a catalyst for the transformation of Western culture. In Reformation in the Western World, Paul Silas Peterson shows how the retrieval of the ancient Christian teachings about God's grace and the authority of Scripture influenced culture, society, and the political order. The emphasis on an egalitarian church--the priesthood of all believers--led to a more egalitarian society. In the long run, the Reformation encouraged the emergence of modern freedoms, religious tolerance, capitalism, democracy, the natural sciences, and the disenchantment of the papacy and worldly means of grace. Yet the egalitarian fruit of the Reformation was not uniform, as is seen in the persecution of detractors and Jews, and in the marginalization of women. In all its triumphs and innovations, evils and errors, the Reformation left a lasting double legacy--a divided church in need of unity and the possibilities of a liberated world.
Author : J. H. Hexter
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Page : 277 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 1970
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Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Civilization, Western
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Author : Eugen Weber
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780669394429
The Western Tradition, 5/e, offers carefully selected documents reflecting the social, political, economic, cultural, and religious development of Western civilization. Volume I spans the rise of Western civilization from Egypt and Mesopotamia to the seventeenth century. Volume II commences with the Renaissance and Reformation and it culminates with the end of the Cold War and the rise of new nationalist movements.
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Page : 563 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Civilization
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Author : Rémi Brague
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 25,53 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
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Western culture, which influenced the whole world, came from Europe. But its roots are not there. They are in Athens and Jerusalem. European culture takes its bearing from references that are not in Europe: Europe is eccentric. What makes the West unique? What is the driving force behind its culture? Remi Brague takes up these questions in Eccentric Culture. This is not another dictionary of European culture, nor a measure of the contributions of a particular individual, religion, or national tradition. The author's interest is especially, with regard to the transmission of that culture, to articulate the dynamic tension that has propelled Europe and more generally the West toward civilization. It is this mainspring of European culture, this founding principle, that Brague calls "Roman". Yet the author's intent is not to write a history of Europe, and less yet to defend the historical reality of the Roman Empire. Brague rather isolates and generalizes one aspect of that history or, one might say, cultural myth, of ancient Rome. The Roman attitude senses its own incompleteness and recognizes the call to borrow from what went before it. Historically, it has led the West to borrow from the great traditions of Jerusalem and Athens: primarily the Jewish and Christian tradition, on the one hand, and the classical Greek tradition on the other. Nowhere does the author find this Roman character so strongly present as in the Christian and particularly Catholic attitude toward the incarnation. At once an appreciation of the richness and diversity of the sources and their fruit, Eccentric Culture points as well to the fragility of their nourishing principle. As such, Brague finds in it notonly a means of understanding the past, but of projecting a future in (re)proposing to the West, and to Europe in particular, a model relationship of what is proper to it. An international bestseller (translated from the original French edition of Europe, La Voie Romaine), this work has been or is presently being translated into thirteen languages.