Research Catalog

Title

A pattern for history / Arthur R.M. Lower.

Author

Lower, Arthur R. M. (Arthur Reginald Marsden), 1889-1988.

Publication

Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, ©1978.

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Details

Description

381 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• History > Philosophy
• 08.43 philosophy of history
• History > Philosophy
• Geschiedfilosofie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0771053746
• 9780771053740

LCCN

78326868

OCLC

• ocm04576661
• 4576661
• SCSB-236338

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library