Christendom and European Identity: The Legacy of a Grand Narrative Since 1789This book critically explores the idea of Europe since the French Revolution from the perspective of intellectual history. It traces the dominant and recurring theme of Europe-as-Christendom in discourse concerning the relationship of religion, politics and society, in historiography and hermeneutics, and in theories and constructions of identity and 'otherness'. It examines the evolution of a grand narrative by which European elites have sought to define European and national identity. This narrative, the author argues, maintains the existence of common historical and intellectual roots, common values, culture and religion. The book explores its powerful legacy in the positive creation of a sense of European unity, the ways in which it has been exploited for ideological purposes, and its impact on non-Christian communities within Europe. |
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Chapter 6 | 98 |
Chapter 7 | 115 |
Chapter 8 | 134 |
The Christendom legacy in 20thcentury histories | 154 |
a remodelled narrative | 207 |
Chapter 14 | 238 |
Chapter 15 | 255 |
Chapter 16 | 276 |
Chapter 17 | 299 |
Chapter 18 | 318 |
Conclusion | 331 |
Bibliography | 347 |
From Universal History to the history of Europe as Idea | 172 |
Chapter 11 | 187 |
Index | 373 |
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Page 166 - Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave...
Page 26 - IN the name of the Most Holy and Indivisible Trinity. THEIR Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, and the Emperor of Russia...
Page 26 - Christian nation, the three allied princes looking on themselves as merely delegated by Providence to govern three branches of the one family, namely, Austria, Prussia, and Russia; thus confessing that the Christian world, of which they and their people form a part, has, in reality, no other sovereign than him to whom alone power really belongs...
Page 104 - I wish to speak to you today about the tragedy of Europe. This noble continent, comprising on the whole the fairest and the most cultivated regions of the earth, enjoying a temperate and equable climate, is the home of all the great parent races of the western world. It is the foundation of Christian faith and Christian ethics.
Page 133 - That the history of the world, with all the changing scenes which its annals present, is this process of development and the realization of Spirit — this is the true Theodicaea, the justification of God in history. Only this insight can reconcile Spirit with the history of the world — viz., that what has happened, and is happening every day, is not only not "without God,
Page 26 - ... the precepts of justice, Christian charity, and peace, which, far from being applicable only to private concerns, must have an immediate influence on the councils of princes, and guide all their steps, as being the only means of consolidating human institutions, and remedying their imperfections.
Page 26 - They solemnly declare that the present Act has no other object than to publish in the face of the whole world their fixed resolution, both in the administration of their respective States and in their political relations with every other Government, to take for their sole guide the precepts of that Holy Religion, namely the precepts of Justice, Christian Charity and Peace...
Page 302 - Romans were barbarians who did not precede but closed a great development? Unspiritual, unphilosophical, devoid of art, clannish to the point of brutality, aiming relentlessly at tangible successes, they stand between the Hellenic Culture and nothingness.
Page 254 - There is too much failure among all Europeans in Nyasaland; the three combined bodies. Missionaries, Government, and Companies, or gainers of money, do form the same rule to look upon the native with mockery eyes. It sometimes startles us to see that the three combined bodies are from Europe, and along with them there is a title 'CHRISTENDOM'!
Page 62 - The first duty imposed on those who now direct society is to educate democracy; to put, if possible, new life into its beliefs; to purify its mores; to control its actions; gradually to substitute understanding of statecraft for present inexperience and knowledge of its true interests for blind instincts; to adapt government to the needs of time and place; and to modify it as men and circumstances require.
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| Titre | Christendom and European Identity: The Legacy of a Grand Narrative Since 1789 Volume 40 de Religion and society, ISSN 1437-5370 |
| Auteur | Mary Anne Perkins |
| Édition | réimprimée |
| Éditeur | Walter de Gruyter, 2004 |
| ISBN | 3110182440, 9783110182446 |
| Longueur | 385 pages |
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