Category: How Should We Then Live?

April 3, 2021 / How Should We Then Live?

 

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?

 

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?

 

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?

 

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.