The Restoration of Christian Culture

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ISBN-10:

0898700248

ISBN-13:

9780898700244

Author(s): SENIOR, JOHN
Edition: First Edition
Released: Jan 01, 1998
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Format: Paperback, 244 pages
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Description:

A sequel to "The Death of Christian Culture," this spiritual treatise covers social, cultural, and political topics. It explores the importance of religious knowledge and faith to the health of a culture, provides a historical sketch of the change in cultural and educational standards over the last two centuries, and illustrates how literary and other visual arts either contribute to a culture or conspire to tear it down. Compared to a series of sermons, this analysis explains that there is a continuing extinction of the cultural patrimony of ancient Greece, Rome, medieval Europe, and the early modern period of Western civilization, owing to the pervasive bureaucratization, mechanization, and standardization of increasing materialism. About the author: John Senior holds his doctorate from Columbia University and was a professor of English, comparative literature, and classics and the












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