Word: humanisme
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Lutheranism - and Protestantism-came formally into being 16 years before Luther's death with the public reading on June 25, 1530, of the Augsburg Confession. This official summation of the doctrinal position of the Lutherans was drawn up by Philip Melanchthon, Luther's wise and temperate friend, and...
No Telling. Hundreds of Rivera's greatest frescoes combine the sunshine of Renaissance humanism with Indian earthiness and cruel drama. Rivera was a great enough artist to bridge the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, and the 15th and 20th centuries. Most of his easel pictures -society portraits, nightclub nudes and...
¶ "It is true that many intelligent people of good will now think that man must rely entirely on himself, his science, etc. to improve his lot. I am inclined to think that way myself. But I think we have much to learn from the traditional Christian view of man...
As he chain-smoked cigarettes, embraced old Resistance buddies and held gracious court for Paris literati at his publisher's reception, Albert Camus admitted generously that he thought the award should have gone to André Malraux, "my early mentor." Even as he chatted, he inadvertently revealed the major...
André Malraux once defined the task of modern man as filling the void left by the 19th century's loss of faith. He himself has recently retreated to the religion of art, embracing the Nietzschean view that "we have art in order not to die of the truth...