Category: How Should We Then Live?
April 3, 2021 / How Should We Then Live?

Chapter 4

 

The Reformation

To the Reformation thinkers, authority was not divided between the Bible and the church. The church was under the teaching of the Bible.
April 3, 2021 / How Should We Then Live?

Chapter 3

 

The Renaissance

 
As a man thinketh so is he–and humanism had already begun to show that pessimism was its natural conclusion.
March 28, 2021 / How Should We Then Live?

Chapter 2

 

The Middle Ages

 
The most important individual thing for man is man himself. Without some ultimate meaning for a person (for me, an individual), what is the use of living and what will be the basis for morals, values, and law?
March 28, 2021 / How Should We Then Live?

Chapter 1

 

Ancient Rome

 
Culture and the freedoms of people are fragile. Without a sufficient base, when such pressures come only time is needed–and often not a great deal of time–before there is a collapse.