The Christian Heritage

George Anastaplo

doi:10.5771/9780739135990

Summary

The Christian Heritage: Problems and Prospects 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 responsible for the emergence of modern science with its revolutionary technology. The reader is encouraged to reconsider authors prominent in the religious tradition of the West. Guidance is provided for examinations of the fundamental assumptions and the enduring questions by which Western Civilization has been guided and challenged for millennia. The enduring texts that we in the West repeatedly encounter, especially the most challenging of them, are apt to draw upon, and to illuminate the fundamental assumptions and the enduring questions by which Western Civilization has been guided and challenged for millennia. Vital to Western Civilization has long been the Christian Heritage. That Heritage has been taken for granted in our general education, in something as prosaic as the everyday operations of our legal system, and perhaps even in our economic and other social arrangements.

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Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-3598-3
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-3599-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 446
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Prologue No access
Chapter One. The Triumph of Christianity No access Pages 1 - 9
Chapter Two. Beowulf (521-800?) No access Pages 10 - 24
Chapter Three. Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) No access Pages 25 - 28
Chapter Four. Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) No access Pages 29 - 34
Chapter Five. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) No access Pages 35 - 54
Chapter Six. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) No access Pages 55 - 66
Chapter Seven. Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) No access Pages 67 - 75
Chapter Eight. Thomas More (1478-1535) No access Pages 76 - 90
Chapter Nine. Martin Luther (1483-1548) No access Pages 91 - 108
Chapter Ten. Michel Eÿquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) No access Pages 109 - 118
Chapter Eleven. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) No access Pages 119 - 127
Chapter Twelve. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) No access Pages 128 - 133
Chapter Thirteen. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) No access Pages 134 - 139
Chapter Fourteen. Thomas Paine (1737-1809) No access Pages 140 - 144
Chapter Fifteen. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) No access Pages 145 - 155
Chapter Sixteen. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) No access Pages 156 - 169
Chapter Seventeen. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) No access Pages 170 - 175
Chapter Eighteen. The Modern Greek Character and Islam No access Pages 176 - 189
Chapter Nineteen. A Memo to Protestants No access Pages 190 - 195
Chapter Twenty. Public Funds and Church-Sponsored Schools No access Pages 196 - 203
Chapter Twenty-One. Reason versus Revelation, Reconsidered No access Pages 204 - 208
Chapter Twenty-Two. The Legislation of Morality and the Law of Abortion No access Pages 209 - 215
Chapter Twenty-Three. Animal Sacrifices and the Sacrifice of Morality No access Pages 216 - 223
Chapter Twenty-Four. On Physician-Assisted Suicide No access Pages 224 - 235
Chapter Twenty-Five. Mortality and Happiness No access Pages 236 - 241
Chapter Twenty-Six. The Case for Israel No access Pages 242 - 254
Epilogue No access Pages 255 - 256
Appendix A. European Jews, Their "Christian" Neighbors, and the Holocaust (2000) No access Pages 257 - 300
Appendix B. On the Right to Live as a Beggar: Reflections by Moonlight (2001-2002) No access Pages 301 - 306
Appendix C. On Knowing Oneself: Projectionis and Introspection (2003) No access Pages 307 - 310
Appendix D. On Facts and Theories: Lessons for Law Students from Ptolemy's Astronomy (2004) No access Pages 311 - 314
Appendix E. Christmas Stories (2004) No access Pages 315 - 318
Appendix F. Still Another Look at Taoism (2005) No access Pages 319 - 334
Appendix G. On the Apparent Knowability of the Good (2005) No access Pages 335 - 336
Appendix H. On Properly Knowing Oneself (2006) No access Pages 337 - 340
Appendix I. Come, All Ye Faithful: St. John Chrysostom and the Meaning of Christmas (2006) No access Pages 341 - 342
Appendix J. An Academic Autobiography, by Way of Saint Thomas and Saint Ignatius (2008) No access Pages 343 - 346
Appendix K. Sruggles for the Soul of Christendom (2008) No access Pages 347 - 356
Appendix L. On Truly Knowing What One Is Trying to Do: The Mystery of Evil (2008) No access Pages 357 - 360
Appendix M. Glimpses of Leo Strauss, Jacob Klein, and St. John's College (2009) No access Pages 361 - 370
Notes No access Pages 371 - 430
Index No access Pages 431 - 446