Christianity and Classical Culture

Name: Christianity and Classical Culture
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ISBN: 9780865974135

ISBN-10: 0865974136

ISBN-13: 9780865974135

Edition: 2003 (Reprint)

Authors: Charles Norris COCHRANE

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The theme of 'Christianity and Classical Culture' is the fundamental change in thought and action that occurred from the reign of Augustus to the time of Augustine. The classical world sought to practice politics and understand the world in purely rational terms, but the difficulties of this program were already evident as Christianity began developing a completely new understanding of the human world. It is from this revolution in ideas that our modern world was forged. W H Auden wrote of an earlier edition in The New Republic: Since the appearance of the first edition in 1940, I have read this book many times, and my conviction of its importance to the understanding not only of the epoch…

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List price: $12.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 634
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English



Preface



Reconstruction



Pax Augusta: The Restored Republic



Romanitas: Empire and Commonwealth



Roma Aeterna: The Apotheosis of Power



Regnum Caesaris Regnum Diaboli



Renovation



The New Republic: Constantine and the Triumph of the Cross



Quid Athenae Hierosolymis? The Impasse of Constantinism



Apostasy and Reaction



State and Church in the New Republic



Theodosius and the Religion of State



Regeneration



The Church and the Kingdom of God



Nostra Philosophia: The Discovery of Personality



Divine Necessity and Human History


Translators' Note


App.: Latin and Greek Translations


Index