Tag: Culture
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Has Europe Lost Its Soul?
“The religious roots of the market economy and of democratic capitalism…were produced by a culture saturated in the values of the Judaeo-Christian heritage, and market economics was originally intended to advance those values.” “When Europe recovers its soul, it will recover its wealth-creating energies. But first it must remember: humanity was not created to serve…
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Philosophy and Contentment in the Age of Radical Skepticism
This is an outstanding essay by Dr. Pedro Blas González, a professor of philosophy at Barry University of Miami and occasional contributor to OrthodoxyToday.org. Dr. González analyzes the sickness of contemporary culture with penetrating moral clarity of the kind only given to those whose touchstone is not of this world. Some highlights: What is it…
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Renewing Christendom: T.S. Eliot – The Journey of the Magi [AUDIO]
Below is a rare recording taken from a live interview T.S. Eliot did for the BBC during World War II. Eliot reads his poem “The Journey of Magi” where the sojourner retraces the steps of the Magi in his own time and place. The poem recalls a time when the knowledge of Christ was more…
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The Limits of Secularism
An outsanding analysis by the Chief Rabbi of England Lord Sacks. Some highlights: In 1997…I argued that the world had moved on since (Isaiah) Berlin’s great 1957 lecture “Two Concepts of Liberty” (.pdf), and that the threat to liberty was now different: not totalitarianism but rather the internal moral decay of free societies. So there…
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Cultural Legacy of Communism: Armenian Women Still Have Average of 8 and as High as 20 Abortions in Lifetime
When the Berlin Wall fell everyone pondered the ramifications as East Germany rejoined their Western brothers and presumably in a few short years catapult Germany to even higher economic prominence. It didn’t happen. As it turned out, all it takes to weaken a culture is one generation. Sixty years can wipe values and habits that…