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The Long Truce
A. J. Conyers
其他書名
How Toleration Made the World Safe for Power and Profit
出版Spence Publishing Company, 2001
主題Political Science / Civil RightsReligion / GeneralReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / HistoryReligion / Christian Theology / AnthropologyReligion / Religion, Politics & StateSocial Science / Sociology / Social TheorySocial Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
ISBN18906263689781890626365
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MOi5AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋A culture built upon the ideology of individual choice will be culture of alienation, loneliness, and violence. In a provocative new book, A. J. Conyers shows that Western culture was once informed by a sense of vocation, that men understood life as a response to a call from outside and above themselves. Beginning in the sixteenth century, however, the sense of vocation began to fade, to be replaced by the modern celebration of the unfettered human will. In such a society, Conyers argues, where relations among men are based on force, true community is impossible. The idea of vocation is of central importance in the Judeo-Christian tradition, of course, but Conyers shows how it has shaped non-Western societies as well. In every tradition, he find