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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... kings , noting that Daniel in particular had thereby earned his way into the Bible , and to insist that kings too owed absolute obedience to the Lord- " the King of kings . " For all practical purposes , how- ever , Calvin insisted as ...
... kings , noting that Daniel in particular had thereby earned his way into the Bible , and to insist that kings too owed absolute obedience to the Lord- " the King of kings . " For all practical purposes , how- ever , Calvin insisted as ...
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... kings are ordained by God , and not only that they are so ordained , but also that they are gods themselves . . . not by nature but by grace . " Such god- kings , it followed , were hardly subject to the will or the judgment of ordinary ...
... kings are ordained by God , and not only that they are so ordained , but also that they are gods themselves . . . not by nature but by grace . " Such god- kings , it followed , were hardly subject to the will or the judgment of ordinary ...
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... King James I of England observed - heaven is never a republic . Thinkers knew well enough that kings could govern badly , but they had good biblical authority for insisting on the neces- sity of obedience even so ; God himself had said ...
... King James I of England observed - heaven is never a republic . Thinkers knew well enough that kings could govern badly , but they had good biblical authority for insisting on the neces- sity of obedience even so ; God himself had said ...
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The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
Urheberrecht | |
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