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