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One night I begged Robin, a scientist by training, to watch Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' with me on PBS. He lasted about one act, then turned to me in horror: 'This is how you spend your days? Thinking about things like this?' I was ashamed. I could have been learning about string theory or how flowers pollinate themselves.
I think his remark was the beginning of my crisis of faith. Like so many of my generation in graduate school, I had turned to literature as a kind of substitute fo
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― The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
― The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
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Scholars have argued that without humanism the Reformation could not have succeeded, and it is certainly difficult to imagine the Reformation occurring without the knowledge of languages, the critical handling of sources, the satirical attacks on clerics and scholastics, and the new national feeling that a generation of humanists provided. On the other hand, the long-term success of the humanists owed something to the Reformation. In Protestant schools and universities classical culture found a
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― The Age of Reform 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe
― The Age of Reform 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe
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