There can be no question that it [religion] has lost the organic relations with culture which it possessed in the great religion-cultures of antiquity and the Middle Ages. Christopher Dawson, Religion and Culture Art Be With You Slogan on website of the Museo dell’ Opera del DuomoOf all the forces that bind Western civilization, no anchorhold has been stronger than the Bible. It has been a monumental, creative driver of Western culture. Scripture provides the vaulting under literature and history; it has inspirited majestic visual art. Continue Reading
What made Christianity so dangerous [to imperial Rome] was its uncompromising, radical de-divinization of the world. —Eric Voegelin, The New Science of PoliticsEarly Christian thinking, like the biblical thinking of the Jewish culture which informed it, was a sedition against the entire pagan world of the sacred. It abolished nature gods: the moon goddess, the gods of thunder, of the hunt, of fertility, the harvest, the waters, all the deities of pagan cosmology. It denied Flora and Faunus sacred status. Continue Reading
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