The Nature/Grace RGM of The Latin Middle Ages
According to Dooyeweerd, the great sweep of Christianization in the Latin West beginning from St Augustine onwards came under sway of a new synthesis that was torn by the opposing values of Nature and Grace, in a situation where the State backed the Church in prioritizing Grace as dominant over the approved limited valorization of Nature. Through the Renaissance of the twelfth century and also of the fifteenth century and the Reformations (both Protestant and Catholic) of the sixteenth, the Nature under Grace dualism was held in place, only to collapse in the wake of the oncoming next RGM.
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Famous quotes containing the words middle ages, nature, grace, latin, middle and/or ages:
“Of all the barbarous middle ages, that
Which is most barbarous is the middle age
Of man! it is—I really scarce know what;
But when we hover between fool and sage,
And don’t know justly what we would be at—
A period something like a printed page,
Black letter upon foolscap, while our hair
Grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“He prayed more deeply for simple selflessness than he had ever prayed before—and, feeling an uprush of grace in the very intention, shed the night in his heart and called it light. And walking out of the little church he felt confirmed in not only the worth of his whispered prayer but in the realization, as well, that Christ had become man and not some bell-shaped Corinthian column with volutes for veins and a mandala of stone foliage for a heart.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)
“But these young scholars, who invade our hills,
Bold as the engineer who fells the wood,
And travelling often in the cut he makes,
Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not
And all their botany is Latin names.
The old men studied magic in the flowers.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“On the Coast of Coromandel
Where the early pumpkins blow,
In the middle of the woods
Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
Two old chairs, and half a candle,—
One old jug without a handle,—
These were all his worldly goods:
In the middle of the woods,”
—Edward Lear (1812–1888)
“Next time, to tarry,
While the Ages steal—
Slow tramp the Centuries,
And the Cycles wheel!”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)