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100 1 $aO'Malley, John W.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79109026
245 10 $aFour cultures of the West /$cJohn W. O'Malley.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,$c2004.
300 $a261 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [241]-254) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction : Athens and Jerusalem -- $gCulture 1.$tProphecy and reform -- $gCulture 2.$tThe academy and the professions -- $gCulture 3.$tPoetry, rhetoric, and the common good -- $gCulture 4.$tArt and performance -- $tEpilogue : the book of our experience.
520 1 $a"The cultures considered here originated in the ancient world, took on Christian forms, and manifest themselves today in more secular ways. These are, as John W. O'Malley identifies them: the prophetic culture that proclaims the need for radical change in the structures of society (represented by, for example, Jeremiah, Martin Luther, and Martin Luther King, Jr.); the academic culture that seeks to understand those structures (Aristotle, Aquinas, the modern university); the humanistic culture that addresses fundamental human issues and works for the common good of society (Cicero, Erasmus, and Eleanor Roosevelt); and the culture of art and performance that celebrates the mystery of the human condition (Phidias, Michelangelo, Balanchine)." "By showing how these cultures, as modes of activity and discourse in which Western intelligence has manifested itself through the centuries and continues to do so, O'Malley produces an essay that especially through the history of Christianity brilliantly illuminates the larger history of the West."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aCivilization, Western$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117700
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