General Index
“About the Question of Form” (Kandinsky),
Allegory of Good and Bad Government (1338–1339),
Ambrose of Milan, , ; music of, ,
Aquinas, Thomas, , , , , , , ,
art: in ancient Rome, ; during the Reformation, , , , , ; Florentine painting, ; fragmentation in the field of painting, , , , ; Impressionism, , ; post-Impressionism, ; and the problem of reality becoming a dream to painters, . See also ; Renaissance, art/painting of
Ascent of Man, The (Bronowski),
authoritarian state, the (the new elite), , , ; the media as an elite, . See also authoritarian state government, pressures on citizens to accept manipulation/manipulative techniques
authoritarian state government, pressures on citizens to accept: the chaos of random or political violence, ; economic breakdowns particularly inflation, ; food and natural resources shortages, ; radical distribution of wealth, ; war or the threat of war,
Aventicum (modern day Avenches),
Beethoven, Ludwig von, ; Quartets of,
Bernstein, Leonard, ; on Mahler,
Beyond Freedom and Dignity (Skinner),
Bible, the, , , , , , , , ; as providing unity to the universal and the particular, ; as telling us true things about people and nature,
Carmelite Order (in Florence),
Caesar Augustus, , ; as the head of the state religion (Pontifex Maximus), ; monument to, ; peace established by,
Christ of St. John of the Cross (1951),
Christian art: Byzantine, ; “living” quality of, ; mosaic art,
Christian base, the, , , , , , , , , , , ; as the basis of modern science, , , ; and the dignity of man, , ; and music, ; and the work ethic,
Christian consensus, , , , , , , , ,
Christian worldview, strength of,
Christianity, , , , , , , , ; biblical, , , , , ; early Christianity, , ; as a legal religion in Rome, ; distortion of pristine Christianity, ; as the mother of modern science, ; as the state religion of Rome,
Christians, , , , , , , , , ; absolute, universal standard of, ; Christian education, ; considered as rebels in Rome, ; cutting down of sacred groves by, ; generosity of, ; need for Christians to acknowledge inconsistencies in regard to a twisted view of race, ; why Christians were killed during the Roman Empire, , ; worship of the infinite-personal God, ; worship of Jesus as God,
cinema, , ; philosophic statements made through films, ,
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, The (Burckhardt),
Coming of Post-Industrial Society, The (Bell),
Communism: A Legacy of Terror (Solzhenitsyn), ,
Council of Constance (1414–1418), ,
Crick, Francis, , ; as a reductionist,
Crusades, the, as vehicles of economic expansion,
culture: general, ; post-Renaissance,
da Vinci, Leonardo, , , , , , , ; as the first modern mathematician,
Declaration of the Rights of Man,
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon),
Descartes, René, ; as the father of modern philosophy,
determinism, , ; chemical/genetic determinism, ; psychological determinism, ; sociological determinism, ,
drug culture/drug use/hallucinogenic drugs, , , , ; and psychedelic rock, ; use of by rock groups,
Dürer, Albrecht, ; diary entries of concerning Luther, ; famous woodcuts of,
Electronic Studies (Stockhausen),
English Social History (G. Trevelyan),
Enlightenment, the, , ; belief that man and society are perfectible during, ; deism as the “religion” of, ; humanistic elements of in total antithesis to the Reformation, ; rationalism of, ; utopian dream of, ; view of God during,
Epistle to the Romans, The (Barth),
Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke), ,
Essay on the Principle of Population, An (Malthus),
Europe: as Christ’s kingdom (Christendom), ; division of European thought between the humanism of the Renaissance and the Bible-based teaching of the Reformation,
existentialism, , , , ; existential methodology, , , , ; neo-orthodox existential theology, ; secular existentialism, ; theological existentialism, ,
Florence, , , ; the Academy of, ; architecture of, , ; churches of, ; rise of opera in,
Frederick Henry (prince of Orange),
French Revolution, , ; and the “goddess of reason,” ; liberal bourgeois plan of, ; massacre during, ; the Second French Revolution, . See also
“Für Theo Van Doesburg” (Arp),
God, , , , , , ; and the break between God and His creation, ; as the Creator, , , , ; the infinite-personal God, , , , ; the “God is dead” theory, ; knowledge of, ; as reasonable, , , , ; revelation of, , , ; use of the word “God,”
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, ,
Gospel According to the Mark of Silver,
Grand Titration, The (Needham),
Great Britain/England, , , ; abolition of slavery in, ; the “Bloodless Revolution” in, ,
Greeks, the, , , , , , ; and the Greek city-state (the polis), , , ,
Gulag Archipelago, The (Solzhenitsyn), ,
Handel, George Frideric, ; primary religious music composed by other than the Messiah,
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, , ; primary works of,
Heidegger, Martin, ; primary works of, ,
Hinduism, ; Kali as the manifestation of God in,
history: flow of, , ; three primary lines of (the philosophic, the scientific, the religious),
History of Western Music, A (Grout),
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., , ,
humanism, , , , , , , , , ; Christian, ; dilemma of, ; failure of, ; modern, ; Renaissance, , , , , , ; second type of, , ; secular, ; and the synthesis between biblical teaching and pagan thought,
Huxley, Aldous, ; as an advocate of drug use, ; primary works of,
Imperial Cities and the Reformation (Moeller),
Institutes of the Christian Religion (Calvin), ,
Introduction to Contemporary Music (Machlis), ,
Jaspers, Karl, ; and the dilemma of his existentialism,
Jean, duc de berry, Book of Hours of,
Jesus Christ, , , , ; Christ’s prayer that believers be in the world but not of it, ; teaching of, ; at the tomb of Lazarus,
Juliet of the Spirits (1965), ,
Justice Lifts the Nations (1905),
Kant, Immanuel, , , , ; primary works of,
knowledge, fragmented concept of,
La Nouvelle Justine (de Sade),
Last Year at Marienbad, The (1961), ,
law, , ; as king in a sociological sense, ; modern law, ; sociological law, , ,
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), , ,
Lessons of the Paris Commune, The (Lenin),
Letters Concerning the English Nation (Voltaire),
Lex Rex: Law Is King (Rutherford), , , ,
liberalism, theological, , , ,
Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (Plutarch),
Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, The (Vasari),
Luther, Martin, , , , ; as a musician,
Madonna with Chancellor Rolin (1436),
man: autonomous man, , , , , ; as made in the image of God, , , , ; meaningless of, , ; modern man, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
manipulation/manipulative techniques, , ; biological manipulation, ; manipulative capacity of computers, ; social manipulation, ; subliminal influence/manipulation, ,
Marquis de Sade, ; determinism of,
Mary, depictions of in Renaissance art including the Pietàs of Michelangelo, ,
Masaccio, , , ; use of central perspective by,
Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution,
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, The (I. Newton),
Michelangelo, , , , , ; Pietàs of,
Middle Ages, the, , ; architecture of, , , ; artistic revival/achievements of the church during, , ; church-state situation during, ; decline of learning in, ; economic teaching of, ; efforts by the church to control exorbitant moneylending during, ; lack of technical skill by artists during, ; later Middle Ages, , , ; movement from the Romanesque to the Gothic style in, ; music of, ; political theory during, ; preservation of the Bible during, ; relationship between Christian and classical thought during, ; rise of the Conciliar Movement during, , ; rise of universities during, ; science during, ; state power in financial matters during,
modern science, , , , , , , , , , ; modern science becoming sociological science, ,
“Moving Toward the Clonal Man” (Crick),
music, , , ; black jazz, ; black spirituals, ; fragmentation in, ; of the Middle Ages, ; music by chance, ; popular music, ; of the Reformation, ; of the Renaissance, . See also
music, classical: French, ; German, ,
Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947),
naturalism, ; extreme naturalism,
nature, , , , ; biblical or non-biblical concepts of, ; deification of,
Newton, Isaac, , ; loyalty of to the teachings of the Bible,
Novum Organum Scientiarum (F. Bacon),
Nude Descending a Staircase (1912),
Oath of the Tennis Court, The,
Objections to Christian Belief (Bezzant),
occult, the, appearing as upper-story hope,
On the Origin of Species (Darwin),
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Copernicus),
“On Science and Culture” (Oppenheimer),
On the Structure of the Human Body (Vesalius),
optimism, , , , , , , , , , , ; and the movement from optimism to that of optimistic hope being lost, , ,
Origin of the Genetic Code, The (Crick),
Origins of Christian Art, The (Gough),
Our Future Inheritance: Choice or Chance (Alun and Bodmer), , ,
Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (Polanyi),
philosophy, ; formal philosophy, ; Greek philosophers, ; and linguistic analysis, ; movement in from unity to fragmentation, , , . See also ; ; ;
philosophy and science, breakdown in, ; and the attempt to make nature the basis of morals, ; and the beliefs of non-Christian philosophers, ; and the history of non-Christian philosophers, ; and the impersonal plus time plus chance equation, ; and the movement from optimism to that of optimistic hope being lost, ; and open and closed systems, ; and the problem of the universal (absolutes) and the particular, ; and the question of determinism and behaviorism, ; and the question of what was the beginning of everything, . See also ;
Physics and Politics (Bagehot),
Plato, , ; Platonism, ; Western interest in, . See also
pope, the, as the Servant of Servants,
Poplars at Giverny, Sunrise (1888),
positivism, ; objections to, ; as parallel to Impressionism,
presuppositions, , , , , , ; of rationalism,
Principles of Geology (Lyell),
Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, The (Ricardo),
Quest for the Historical Jesus, The (Schweitzer),
rationalism, , ; theological acceptance of,
reason, , ; humanistic reason, ; lower-story of, ; nonreason, . See also
Reformation, the, , , , , , ; and the authority of the Bible, , ; art/painting during, , , , , ; beginnings of in French-speaking Switzerland, ; biblical concept of the Fall during, ; centering of the Reformation in the concept of an infinite-personal God, , ; and the concept of coming to God directly by faith alone, ; and the concept of sola Scriptura, ; criticism of for being against art, , ; crucial difference between the Reformation and the Renaissance, ; distinction between cult images and other forms of art during, ; effects of on culture, ; emphasis on the dignity of all vocations, ; in England, , , ; essence of, ; as far from a “golden age,” ; forerunners of, ; increase in social, personal, and political freedom without chaos during, , , ; influence of on the checks and balances of government during, ; music during, ; overlap with the Renaissance, ; purifying of religion from overemphasis on visual symbols during, ; the removal of humanistic distortions from the church as the core of, ; in Scotland, ,
Renaissance, the, , , , , , ; architecture during, , ; art/painting of, , , , , ; and the concept of autonomous man, , , , , ; crucial difference between the Reformation and the Renaissance, ; emphasis on nature during, ; enthusiasm for Greek and Roman classics during, ; the High Renaissance, , , , , , , , ; interplay of the arts during, ; music during, ; and the nature-versus-grace problem, ; unfortunate side of, ; veneration of the ancient Greco-Roman world during, ; writers/writing in, , . See also ;
Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the 19th Century, The (Haeckel),
river cultures, ancient (of the Euphrates, the Indus, and the Nile),
Roman Catholic Church, ; attacks on Copernicus and Galileo,
Rome, ancient, , ; abortion in, ; apathy and lack of artistic creativity in the late Roman Empire, ; art and painting in, ; bridges of, ; cruelty of, ; extent of the Roman Empire, ; influence of Greek thought on, ; rampant sexuality in, ; Roman law, ; value system of, ; weakness of Roman culture,
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, , , ; on autonomous freedom and the idea of the “noble savage,” , , , ; operas of, ; on reason,
Rousseau and Revolution (Durant and Durant),
Sacrament of the Last Supper, The (1955),
Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von,
Schoenberg, Arnold, , ; pupils of,
School of Athens, The (1510), , ,
“Science and the Modern World” (A. N. Whitehead),
Scientific Revolution, the: as born from a Christian worldview, , , , ; influence of the Renaissance and the Middle Ages on, ; origins of the rise of, , ; overlap of with the Reformation and the Renaissance, ; and the uniformity of natural causes in an open system, , . See also
scientists, Christian and non-Christian,
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967),
sexuality, ; in ancient Rome, ; sexual morality,
Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (de Condorcet),
slaves/slavery/slave ships, , , , ; abolition of in England and the British colonies, ; brutality of, ; contemporary slavery,
Social Contract, The (Rousseau),
society, and the need for absolutes,
Strawberry Fields Forever (1967),
That Hideous Strength (Lewis),
Timothy Leary, the Madness of the Sixties and Me (Slack),
United States, , , ; the black church in,
United States Supreme Court, ; ruling of on abortion (Roe v. Wade), ,
Universe Next Door, The (Sire),
University of Wisconsin, bombing at,
Voices of Silence, The (Malraux),
Ward 7: An Autobiographical Novel (Tarsis),
wealth, compassionate use of, ,
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897),
“Why I Study Biology” (Crick), ,
William III (prince of Orange),