 | Donald J. Mulvihill, Melvin Marvin Tumin, Lynn A. Curtis - Crime - 1969 - 808 pages
...of patient inquiry, a cry for infallible revelation, and indifference to the welfare of the state. It is an atmosphere in which the aim of the good man...justly, to help the society to which he belongs and to enjoy the esteem of his fellow creatures; but rather, by means of a burning faith and a contempt... | |
 | Michael Roemer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 516 pages
...asceticism, of mysticism, in a sense, of pessimism; a loss of self-confidence, of hope in this life, a cry for infallible revelation; an indifference to...welfare of the state, a conversion of the soul to God." Gilbert Murray, Five Stages of Greek Religion (1935), 123, cited by Peter Gay, The Enlightenment: An... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1996 - 756 pages
...who has chronicled this sapping of vitality and rationality, describes it in a famous paragraph as "a rise of asceticism, of mysticism, in a sense, of...welfare of the state, a conversion of the soul to God." And, having described this "intensifying of certain spiritual emotions," he christened it a "failure... | |
 | Arthur Herman - History - 1997 - 538 pages
...and of faith in normal human effort: a despair of patient inquiry, a cry for infallible revelation. It is an atmosphere in which the aim of the good man...enjoy the esteem of his fellow creatures, but rather ... to be granted pardon for his unspeakable unworthiness, his immeasurable sins.75 Murray, the freethinking... | |
 | Ben Witherington, III - Religion - 2000 - 452 pages
...Mediterranean crescent in the Hellenistic and Roman periods from the approach in the earlier classical period is "a rise of asceticism, of mysticism, in a sense...welfare of the state, a conversion of the soul to God . . . " (G. Murray, Five Stages of Creek Religion, 155; cf. ER Dodds, Pagan and Christian in an Age... | |
 | John Shand - Philosophy - 2005 - 250 pages
...the next. This view of the medieval period is forcefully described by Gilbert Murray as: a rise in asceticism, of mysticism, in a sense of pessimism;...welfare of the state, a conversion of the soul to God. (1935: 123) He sums this up crushingly as a "failure of nerve". The Enlightenment was just the opposite... | |
 | Neil Jumonville - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 458 pages
...of pessimism; a loss of self-confidence, of hope in this life and of faith in normal human efforts; a despair of patient inquiry, a cry for infallible...welfare of the state, a conversion of the soul to God." A survey of the cultural tendencies of our own times shows many signs pointing to a new failure of... | |
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It is a rise of asceticism, of mysticism, in a sense, of pessimism; a loss of selfconfidence, of hope in this life and of faith in normal human effort; a despair of patient inquiry, a cry for infallible revelation; an indifference to the welfare of the... 