Rels: 205
Lecture 2.2 Religious and Secular Traditions
Lecture Outline for Part One of Rels 205.01
Week 2Lecture 1 Ritual and the Study of ReligionLecture 2 Religious and Secular TraditionsWeek 3Lecture 1 Sacral SentimentsLecture 2 The meaning of mythWeek 4Lecture 1 Arguments for Belief in GodLecture 2 Traditional ChristianityWeek 5Lecture 1 Changing WorldviewsLecture 2 ReviewWeek 6 Reading WeekWeek 7Lecture 1 First in class test
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
A Man’s a Man for A' That
Is there for honesty poverty That hings his head, an' a' that; The coward slave - we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, an' a' that, Our toils obscure an' a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that.
Then let us pray that come it may, (As come it will for a' that,) That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth, Shall bear the gree, an' a' that. For a' that, an' a' that, That man to man, the world o'er, Shall brithers be for a' that.
Western Views of Time I
1780-1830
Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)The Oath of the Horatio -1784
Western Views of Time II
1780-1830 Joseph Turner (1775-1851)Rain, damp, wind, and
the Great Western Train - 1844
Western Views of Time III
Past Future
1780-1830
The Significance of Rome
The Influence of Rome
Porta Negra, Trier
The Influence of Rome II
The Basilica, TrierApprox. 300
The Influence of Rome III
Aqueduct, France
The Importance of Concrete
Joseph Aspdin (1778-1855)1824
Sehnsucht
The Lost Empire
Charles the Great – Charlemagne(742-814)
The Empire Reborn
Napoleon Bonaparte I (1769-1821)
Sense of decline
Rome
The American Ideal
Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826)
Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)
George Washington(1732-1799)
Classical Culture
Recreating Rome
Schauspielhaus 1818-1821
Classical Culture
Altes Museum complex 1815
Schloßbrucke1821-1824
The Triumph of Christianity
The Triumph of the Church
Michelangelo Caravaggio, 1600-1601(1571-1610)
The blood of the Saints …
Albrecht Altdorfer (1480-1538)Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian – 1509-1516
… the seed of the Church.
Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian – early C17
The Conversion of Rome
Piero della Francesca (1410/20-1492)The Battle at Mivo Bridge 1452–1466
In this sign conquer
Piero della Francesca, 1452–1466
Constantine the Great (288-337)
The Ages of Faith
Bede(672-735)
Augustine(354-371)
Anselm and Alcuin
Anselm(1033-1109) Alcuin
(735-804)
The High Middle Ages
Thomas Aquinas(1225/7-1274)
Luther and Bunyan
Martin Luther(1483-1546) John Bunyan
(1628-1688 )
Christianity Triumphant
The Enlightenment
Friedrich, II, the Great of Prussia (1712-1786)
The Age of Enlightenment
Schloss Sanssouci
Without care
The Age of Reason
Sans Souci, Potsdam (1745-1747)Frederick the Great - Friedrich der Grosse (1712-1786)
Friedrich the Great (1712-1786)
Frederick and Voltaire
Chinese Tea House - San Souci1754-1756
San Souci Park
San Souci Park
Classical Ideal
Schloss Charlottenburg - 1740
The European Enlightenment
Catherine the Great(1729-1796)
Frederick the GreatFriedrich der Grosse
(1712-1786)
Voltaire
1694-1778 David Hume
(1711-1776)
The American Enlightenment
Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826)
Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790)
George Washington(1732-1799)
Immanuel Kant(1724-1804)
Kant on Enlightenment
Enlightenment is the flight of human beings from self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the refusal of people to take responsibility and use their own understanding without the help of another … What is Enlightenment (1784)
The Impact of Technology
The New Future The Future
Joseph Turner – The Train(1775-1851)
Triumph of Technology
Technological Progress over the centuries I
400 BC-400 AD
The Greco-RomanWorld
Little or no innovation,
e.g. agriculture,writing.
0-400 BC
Little or no innovation,e.g. spur, andcompass.
The real “Dark Ages”
Considerable Innovation –e.g. concrete,and windmills
400-1775
Pre-history
Technological Progress over the centuries II
1780-1830
The earlymodernworld
Little or no innovation
400-1775Birth of Modern technologye.g. chemical and electrical machines.
The real “Dark Ages”:Post-Roman, Medieval,Renaissance, Reformationand pre-modern world.
Modernworld
Modern Times
Adolf Friedrich Menzel (1815-1905)
The Modern Age
Technological Dominance
Time Reconsidered
Past Future
1780-1830
Devaluing the Past
Belief in Miracles
Simple peasants
El Greco1570
Rembrant1633
A question of faith?
El Greco – 1570(1541-1614)
Simple peasants
Rembrant – 1633(1606-1669
A Scientific Impossibility
Marco dal Pino - 1555
The “Dark Ages”
The “Dark Ages”
Tom Paine
Thomas Aquinas
Mainz Dom
Socrates (470-399 BC)
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Time and the Secular Tradition
His Excellency Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832)
Poet, Author, Scientist
Goethe in Campagna (1787)
Johann Tischbein (1751-1829)
European roots
RomeGreece
Egypt
Egyptian Obelisk
Greek figures?
Roman arches
What is missing?
Judeo-Christian Influences
The New Future
Loss of faith and the rise of new religions
Tom Paine(1737-1809)
Ludwig Feuerbach(1804-1872)
Voltarie1694-1778
New Religions timeline
1800 Christian
1870 Eastern
1900 Scientific
1850 Neo-Pagan
Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
The End of Economic Man – 1939The New Realities – 1989
Drucker’s autobiography
Adventures of a Bystander – 1979
Our Post-Modern World
TraditionalSocieties
The Enlightenment1750+
The ModernPost-Modern
Era
Our World1950+
Post-Colonial
Our Post-European World
TraditionalSocieties
Peace of Westphalia1648
EuropeanEra
Post-European
Era
Independenceof India
1948
The European Era
TraditionalSocieties
Peace of Westphalia
EuropeanEra
Independenceof India
19481648