Greek East and the Latin West: A Study in the Christian Tradition

Name: Greek East and the Latin West: A Study in the Christian Tradition
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By Philip Sherrard

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The Division of Christendom into the Greek East and the Latin West has its origins far back in history but its consequences still affect Europe and thus western civilization. Philip Sherrard's study seeks to indicate both the fundamental character and some of the consequences of this division. He points especially to the underlying metaphysical bases of Greek Christian thought, and contrast them with those of the Latin West; he argues persuasively that the philosophical and even theological differences, remote as they might seem from practical affairs, are symptoms of a deep divergence of outlook that has profoundly affected the history of ideas and hence the whole course of European history. He exemplifies this by comparing the relationships between the spiritual and temporal powers during the Byzantine period with those assumed by the medieval Papacy, by an ysis of the 'Platonic reaction' of such figures as Gemistos Plethon, and by an exposition of the intellectual background of the Renaissance, the Reformation and, finally, of the modern western world. His concluding chapters discuss the impact of modern western ideas on Greek life and letters during the last few centuries. Philip Sherrard (1922–1995) was educated at Cambridge and London and taught at the universities of both Oxford and London, but he made Greece his permanent home. A profound, committed and imaginative thinker, his theological and metaphysical writings embrace a wide range of subjects, from the study of the spiritualizing potential of sexual love to the restoration of a sacred cosmology which he saw as the only way to escape from the spiritual and ecological dereliction of the modern world.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 3
Number of Pages:: 224
Release Date:: 2007-07-17
Publication Date:: 2007-07-17
Publisher:: Denise Harvey (Publisher)
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 9607120043
Weight:: 330 g

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