Christianity: Friend or Foe of the Great Ideas?

Robert T. Ptaszek

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Page Range:: 163–178

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468016_012

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Mortimer J. Adler maintained that religion is mainly an individual and historical, cultural activity, enterprise, through which people learn answers to Great Questions, while philosophy is chiefly an individual and historical, cultural enterprise, through which people enter into a Great Conversation about answers to such Great Questions. While Adler did not think that any one religion exists that provides ready-made, complete answers to the whole truth about God, human beings, and the world, this chapter defends the claim that, in Western Civilization, Christianity, and most precisely, historically, Catholicism tends to do this better than any other religion precisely because it is, and historically has been, the best friend, defender, of the Great Ideas, including those of Freedom and Religion, as the paradigms, chief measures, of human rationality at its best.

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The Great Ideas of Religion and Freedom

A Semiotic Reinterpretation of The Great Ideas Movement for the 21st Century

丛编： Value Inquiry Book Series, 卷： 369, Philosophy and Religion, 卷： 369, and Value Inquiry Book Series Online

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ISBN:: 9789004468016

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 17 Jul 2021

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A Semiotic Reinterpretation of The Great Ideas Movement for the 21st Century

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