Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of DemocracyHarper & Row, 1963 - 428 Seiten Herbert J. Muller examines the meaning of freedom in the great civilizations of the past including the Sumerian, Egyptian, Minoan, Assyrian, Persian, Phoenician, Greek, Roman and early Christian. Ranging from the attempts of the cave man to free himself from the tyranny of nature through magic and ritual, to the religious despotism of Byzantium, the author surveys freedom's gains and triumps, its losses and failures. In doing so, he provides the reader with new insight into the meaning and destiny of freedom in Western Civilization. |
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... faith , which remained the national faith of the whole Middle East . No other religious leader has ever had so plain , direct , immediate an effect on the course of history . Christopher Dawson , a devout Christian histo- rian , has ...
... faith , which remained the national faith of the whole Middle East . No other religious leader has ever had so plain , direct , immediate an effect on the course of history . Christopher Dawson , a devout Christian histo- rian , has ...
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... Faith remained primary ; reason could never openly question the fundamentals of faith , its main business was always to support faith . St. Thomas himself was basically uncritical even as he thought up the thousands of possible ...
... Faith remained primary ; reason could never openly question the fundamentals of faith , its main business was always to support faith . St. Thomas himself was basically uncritical even as he thought up the thousands of possible ...
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... faith , and faith alone . For him it had to be essentially an unquestioning faith , since the God he worshiped was an arbitrary , unaccountable God , never to be held up to human standards of justice and reasonableness . He was prodigal ...
... faith , and faith alone . For him it had to be essentially an unquestioning faith , since the God he worshiped was an arbitrary , unaccountable God , never to be held up to human standards of justice and reasonableness . He was prodigal ...
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The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
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