Tag: bible
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G. K. Chesterton’ Orthodoxy
Chesterton’ Orthodoxy presents itself as an intellectual experiment whose distinctive contribution lies in demonstrating, by autobiographical method and argumentative pressure, that classical Christian doctrine functions as a methodological key for holding together experiences that otherwise disintegrate into skepticism, sentimentality, or fanaticism. Its scholarly stake is to exhibit how a determinate creed—summarized by the Apostles’ Creed—does…
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The Disciplines of Interpretation: Lessing, Herder, Schlegel and Hermeneutics in Germany 1750-1800
Robert S. Leventhal’s The Disciplines of Interpretation: Lessing, Herder, Schlegel and Hermeneutics in Germany, 1750–1800 is a genealogy of interpretive reason at the precise historical moment when “reading” ceases to be a private virtuosity and becomes a structured practice, an institutional technology, and a self-questioning mode of historical knowledge. Published by Walter de Gruyter in…
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Johann Gottfried Herder on World History: An Anthology
Johann Gottfried Herder on World History: An Anthology presents Herder’s lifelong wager that history becomes intelligible only when narrated as the becoming of humanity—not a thin abstraction but a living principle that binds language, climate, custom, belief, and art into a single, ever-unfinished text. The editors, Hans Adler and Ernest A. Menze, organize thirty-eight selections…
Simon Gros 