Word: augustinianism
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...Many Sides. With occasionally effective theatrical moments, the play is strung out in pageant-caliber tableaux, beginning with the moment when 22-yearold Martin Luther was received into the order of Augustinian Eremites in Erfurt. Subsequently he is shown on the day he has significant difficulty saying his first Mass; he wrangles with his father, confers with his friend and guide, Johann von Staupitz, nails up his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, speaks forcefully to Cardinal Cajetan, the papal legate, and so on, until in the end he symbolically holds his young child...
Myron P. Gilmore, professor of History--"Augustine would never say to Pelagius... as Socrates would say to Thrasymachus, 'Let us examine your position on virtue.' The atmosphere of the university must be the Platonic rather than the Augustinian one.... It is not the business of the historian to inculcate belief...
...church and a university handle momentous intellectual questions: "Augustine would never say to Pelagius, 'Let us examine your position on grace, Pelagius...'as Socrates would say to Thrasmymachus, 'Let us examine your position on virtue.' The atmosphere of the University," Gilmore holds, "must be the Platonic rather than the Augustinian...
...church and a university handle momentous intellectual questions: "Augustine would never say to Pelagius, 'Let us examine your position on grace, Pelagius ...' as Socrates would say to Thrasmymachus, 'Let us examine your position on virtue.' The atmosphere of the University," Gilmore holds, "must be the Platonic rather than the Augustinian...
Monk & Peas. Genetics got its recognizable start, along with relativity, quantum theory and nuclear physics, during the scientific revolution of the early 1900s, but it had a strange, unpublicized start more than 40 years earlier when Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk and natural-history teacher in Brünn (now Brno, Czechoslovakia), began experimenting with peas in the monastery garden. Mendel found that the parent plants transmitted their characteristics to their descendants in a predictable, mathematical way. When purebred red-flowered peas, for instance, are crossed with white-flowered ones, all the seeds grow into plants with red flowers...