 | Roy Wood Sellars - Christian sociology - 1918 - 254 pages
...barbarism. The conditions of a progressive and broadly based civilization had not yet been achieved. " Any one who turns from the great writers of classical Athens, say Sophocles or Aristotle," writes Gilbert Murray, " to those of the Christian era must be conscious of a great difference in tone.... | |
 | David Fideler - Philosophy - 2000 - 482 pages
...the Hellenistic quest for ataraxia (peace of mind) subdued the mood and the tone of the population: Any one who turns from the great writers of classical...change in the whole relation of the writer to the world around him. The new quality is not specifically Christian: it is just as marked in the Gnostics or... | |
 | Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe - Aesthetics, Modern - 2005 - 182 pages
...Ultimately, after reviewing the literature, philosophy, and theology, he decided it was a failure of nerve.5 Any one who turns from the great writers of classical...change in the whole relation of the writer to the world around him. The new quality is not specifically Christian: it is just as marked in the Gnostics or... | |
 | Rosemary Ruether - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2006 - 396 pages
...to pessimism and eschatology is summed up in Gilbert Murray's Four Stages of Greek Religion: Anyone who turns from the great writers of classical Athens,...Christian era, must be conscious of a great difference of tone. There is a change in the whole relation of the writer to the world around him. The new quality... | |
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ANY one who turns from the great writers of classical Athens, say Sophocles or Aristotle, to those of the Christian era must be conscious of a great difference in tone. There is a change in the whole relation of the writer to the world about him. 