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The Wars of Truth

by Herschel C. Baker

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
  • 14.1 x 21.5 x 2.2 cm

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With this book I bring to a close the studies begun in The 'Dignity of Man.' Since the present work is a thematic and chronological extension of, if not precisely a sequel to, its predecessor, a common title might have served for both; however, here my subject is the deterioration, or at least the radical mutation, of the idea whose development I earlier tried to trace. More specifically, I am here concerned with the traditional and the emerging concepts of 'truth'--theological, scientific, political, and other--whose collision generated such heat and even such light in the age of Milton. I have tried to describe, at least in broad terms, the meshing of those inherited and newly formulated values which in my judgment gives the period its peculiar poignancy and relevance for the modern world. Between the birth and death of Milton English thought underwent a transformation whose consequences we perhaps do not fully understand even now. Yet in attempting to seek out the origins of this transformation in the early Renaissance and to sketch its progress through the earlier seventeenth century I have sought to indicate the intellectual and emotional pressures which shaped men's conception of 'truth' and of their capacity to attain it, and to suggest some of the consequences for literature. --from the Preface Herschel C. Baker (b. 1914) taught at Harvard University. Among his publications are 'The Dignity of Man: Studies in the Persistence of an Idea' and 'The Race of Time: Three Lectures on Renaissance Historiography.'
The Wars of Truth and The Essential History of Christianity
The Essential History of ChristianityThe Wars of Truth

  • Author

    Herschel C. Baker

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Wipf & Stock Publishers

  • Published

    October 2006

  • Weight

    468g

  • Dimensions

    14.1 x 21.5 x 2.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781597528900

  • ISBN-10

    1597528900

  • Eden Code

    4699663

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