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Christian Heritage.
The Christian Heritage delves into the history of the western Christian heritage. Challenges to the Christian heritage, a heritage nourished both by Judaism and by the western classics, have been stimulated by the very success of the way of life that is promoted, a way of life that is somehow respon...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Roman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Prologue; Chapter One. The Triumph of Christianity; Chapter Two. Beowulf (521-800?); Chapter Three. Moses Maimonides (1135-1204); Chapter Four. Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274); Chapter Five. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Chapter Six. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375); Chapter Seven. Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400); Chapter Eight. Thomas More (1478-1535); Chapter Nine. Martin Luther (1483-1548); Chapter Ten. Michel Eÿquem de Montaigne (1533-1592); Chapter Eleven. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593); Chapter Twelve. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662); Chapter Thirteen. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
- Chapter Fourteen. Thomas Paine (1737-1809)Chapter Fifteen. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860); Chapter Sixteen. Charles Darwin (1809-1882); Chapter Seventeen. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900); Chapter Eighteen. The Modern Greek Character and Islam; Chapter Nineteen. A Memo to Protestants; Chapter Twenty. Public Funds and Church-Sponsored Schools; Chapter Twenty-One. Reason versus Revelation, Reconsidered; Chapter Twenty-Two. The Legislation of Morality and the Law of Abortion; Chapter Twenty-Three. Animal Sacrifices and the Sacrifice of Morality; Chapter Twenty-Four. On Physician-Assisted Suicide
- Chapter Twenty-Five. Mortality and Happiness Chapter Twenty-Six. The Case for Israel; Epilogue; Appendix A. European Jews, Their ""Christian"" Neighbors, and the Holocaust (2000); Appendix B. On the Right to Live as a Beggar: Reflections by Moonlight (2001-2002); Appendix C. On Knowing Oneself: Projection is and Introspection (2003); Appendix D. On Facts and Theories: Lessons for Law Students from Ptolemy's Astronomy (2004); Appendix E. Christmas Stories (2004); Appendix F. Still Another Look at Taoism (2005); Appendix G. On the Apparent Knowability of the Good (2005)
- Appendix H. On Properly Knowing Oneself (2006)Appendix I. Come, All Ye Faithful: St. John Chrysostom and the Meaning of Christmas (2006); Appendix J. An Academic Autobiography, by Way of Saint Thomas and Saint Ignatius (2008); Appendix K. Sruggles for the Soul of Christendom (2008); Appendix L. On Truly Knowing What One Is Trying to Do: The Mystery of Evil (2008); Appendix M. Glimpses of Leo Strauss, Jacob Klein, and St. John's College (2009); Notes; Index