A pattern for history / Arthur R. M. Lower
- Bib ID:
- 2594775
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lower, Arthur R. M. (Arthur Reginald Marsden), 1889-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, c1978
- 381 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0771053746
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements 7
- Introduction 13
- "1 "The Spirit of the Age" 21
- Change 24
- The Threefold Evolution 27
- Education and Equality 31
- 2 Judaism - I 34
- 3 Judaism - II 43
- 4 The Classical World 51
- Greece 52
- Rome 55
- The Republic 57
- The Empire 58
- Conclusion 62
- 5 Early Christianity 64
- The Earliest Days 64
- The Emergence of Christianity from Judaism 67
- The Christian Church Takes Shape 70
- 6 The World Turned Upside Down 74
- Part I - Into the Valley 74
- The Decline of Hellenism 74
- The Triumph of the Organized Christian Church 77
- The Full Energies of a Growing Culture 82
- Rise and Decline in the Fifth Century:
- The So-Called Silver Age 86
- Death of a Culture:
- Another World Religion Steps into the Vacant Place 90
- 7 The World Turned Upside Down 96
- Part II - The West at its Lowest Point 96
- A New World Arising Under the Leadership of the Church 101
- 8 The Great Age of Faith 107
- From Anarchy Towards Ecstasy 107
- St. Bernard 112
- The Intellectual 115
- 9 Cross Seas and Sudden Storms: From Faith to Doubt 119
- The Dislocations of the Fourteenth Century 119
- Localism Shatters First Attemp at General Unity 124
- And Also Religious Unity 128
- The New Localisms of the Fifteenth Century,
- Political and Religious 134
- 10 The Great Divide 138
- Revolutionary Italy: Revolution Begins in Metropolitanism 138
- All Revolutionary Fires Die Down 144
- 11 Pandora's Box 151
- Renaissance and Reformation Asked the Same Question 151
- The Reformation as Revolution 154
- Calvinism, The Protestant Sub-Revolution 158
- 12 Calm After Storm 167
- The New World of the Middle Classes 167
- The Middle Class - Its Easy Turn from Heart to
- Head: The Modern Languages Remade 172
- France and England 180
- 13 Calm After Storm: The Enlightenment 188
- 14 Years of Ferment 198
- Precursors of Romanticism 198
- Rousseau, Methodism, Humanitarianism 204
- 15 Years of Ferment: Bubbles Everywhere 212
- Romanticism 212
- Romanticism: Its Non-Literary Aspects 219
- Industry, Great Wars, Well-Being 223
- 16 Century of Hope 230
- An Overview of the Century 230
- Post-War Reaction 232
- The Post-War Shift in Values 240
- 17 Secular Religion 248
- Reason, Faith and the German Thinkers 248
- Secular Religion 251
- Germany and Italy 260
- The Unity of the Period 1815-1848 261
- 18 Century of Hope: Mid-Century Battle 265
- The Ancient Faith: The New Knowledge 265
- The Bomb-shell of 1859: Darwin's Origin of Species 273
- 19 The Earthly Paradise in Sight 282
- The Great Age of Teutonism and Imperialism 282
- Inside Imperialism: Discordant Voices,
- but few Bounds to Optimism 291
- 20 Making God in Man's Image 300
- The Cultural Demise of the Nineteenth Century 300
- The Failure of Faith: The Triumph of Knowledge 303
- The Remarkable Century: And A Failure? 306
- Knowledge and Destruction 309
- The Ultimate Pessimism 310
- Rear Guard Actions
- Socialism: The Class War
- Protestantism: The Social Gospel 311
- The Gulf of Nothingness 315
- 21 From Past to Present 317
- The First World War and its Aftermath 318
- The Inter-War Years 320
- After the Second War 321
- Looking into the Dark 323
- 22 A World Adrift 325
- Equality as the Key Word to the Period 326
- Equality as Illustrated in the Field of Communications 326
- Other Routes to Equality 330
- Equality and Permissiveness 330
- 23 Prelude to Chaos? 332
- This Revolutionary Age and Some of Its Components 332
- Education, Public Well-Being, Numbers, Values 337
- Inanity, Vulgarity: Women and The Sexual Revolution 344
- Should Every Dog Have His Day?
- Why Not? 349.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- History -- Philosophy
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2059 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1989
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1978
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