Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of DemocracyHarper & Row, 1963 - 428 páginas 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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... Church . By getting into worldly affairs it incurred all the risks that beset religion when it does not remain aloof and confine itself to the purely spiritual or other- worldly ; yet the very genius of Christianity , owing to the great ...
... Church . By getting into worldly affairs it incurred all the risks that beset religion when it does not remain aloof and confine itself to the purely spiritual or other- worldly ; yet the very genius of Christianity , owing to the great ...
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... Church con- demned in the burghers , such as the charging of interest ; monasteries went into the banking business , while popes employed Jewish money- lenders " the peculiar sons of the Roman Church , " as Innocent IV called them ...
... Church con- demned in the burghers , such as the charging of interest ; monasteries went into the banking business , while popes employed Jewish money- lenders " the peculiar sons of the Roman Church , " as Innocent IV called them ...
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... Church was deadliest in its hatred of popular heresies that threatened its power . The Waldensians , for example ... church and state . Convinced that either had to be supreme , he plumped for the Church — the Roman Church that " has ...
... Church was deadliest in its hatred of popular heresies that threatened its power . The Waldensians , for example ... church and state . Convinced that either had to be supreme , he plumped for the Church — the Roman Church that " has ...
Contenido
The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
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