Word: antinomianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...antinomian" historians (who are devoted "to the dogma that 'life is just one damned thing after another' "), Toynbee organized history in a pattern. He treated not of nations or races or even "forces," but of civilizations which he saw living and dying in regular cycles. This concept was popularized by Germany's brilliant Historian Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), but where Spengler saw the rise and fall of civilizations inexorably fated, Toynbee believed them subject to man's free will and God's grace...