Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next, we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity. That is why the West has been so powerful. The Christian moral ...
The Christian Bible is still the world’s number one best seller of all time (New York Times). As Christian theologian and philosopher, Francis Schaeffer asserts in his book, The Great Evangelical Disaster, unless we accept The Bible’s version of Jesus we lose the balance of the Christian ...
Foremost among northern humanists was Desiderius Erasmus, whose Praise of Folly (1509) epitomized the moral essence of humanism in its insistence on heartfelt goodness as opposed to formalistic piety. The intellectual stimulation provided by humanists helped spark the Reformation, from which, however,...
Alongside partner Ricardo Scofidio, she was the first architect to be honored by the MacArthur Foundation with a “Genius Grant,” in which the jury stated: “Diller + Scofidio have created an alternative form of architectural practice that unites design, performance, and electronic media with ...
Carrying him up the house stairs when he was having a particularly challenging three-legged day. Holding him and gently stroking his head and back and whispering my best calming voice when pain shown through or agitation would surface. Gently picking him back up when a perhaps drug-induced ...
— but because the meaning of the term “Universalist” has changed over the years. For instance, I consider myself a humanist Universalist. I am not Christian — I’m not even a theist — and I don’t believe in Heaven, and yet I am still a Universalist. More on this later. ...
An exact dating of the composition of Reipublicae christianopolitanae descriptio is not possible269 It was published in 1619 in Strasburg by the firm of Lazarus Zetzner, who also brought out Mythologiœ Christianœ, Memorialia, Turris Babel, Geistlic
The waves from Wittenberg reached far beyond the borders of Germany, marking not only what became the Lutheran tradition but also the wider Christian community, including the Roman Catholic Church, whose identity was forged in this 16th-century confrontation. “What does it mean to look at the ...
2.The literature of Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions, ___ and Christian.3.Among the early Anglo-Saxon poets we may mention ___, who wrote a poetic “Paraphrase” of the Bible, and Cynewulf.4.“___” is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the ...
Was American’s Government Based On Christian Values? So the founding fathers clearly established separation of Church and State and did not declare Christianity as the official religion, but did Christianity influence their ideas? Of the 55 delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, 51 were mo...