Word: judaeo
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...Such a being certainly seems incapable of having much more of an effect on human life than the normal inhalation of argon. Most of these notions come close enough to Tillich's to be intellectually "shoe," however, and their conformity to the negative doctrines of some of the authorized Judaeo-Christian mystics gives them a certain eccentrically orthodox sanction that allows the West's religious tradition to appear superficially unbroken...
...Christian idea of education has been so rarely realized, said William Pollard, executive director of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies and an ordained Episcopal priest, is that the modern Western world has focused on its Greco-Roman heritage to the almost total exclusion of the Judaeo-Christian. A student may study history from the ancient world to the present, "but concerning our Judaeo-Christian stem, he will know nothing of any real, historic, cultural root. [He] will be aware of it only through the fall of Rome and the seamy side of the medieval Church . . . In short...
...great Biblical themes of redemption and judgment in history, of freedom and grace and sin . . . seem strangely vague, far away, and unrelated to the ebb and flow of life and history as he understands it." However much the world "may have retained the institutions and outward forms of its Judaeo-Christian cultural stem, it has well-nigh completely lost the capacity to respond sympathetically and understandingly to that heritage...
Author Ward's most astute observation is that the West may not be able to export the idea of individual dignity and freedom without the Judaeo-Christian metaphysics to which it is linked. She gingerly hopes that a deistic, syncretistic "perennial philosophy" may fill...
Pollard believes that Western culture oscillates between its Judaeo-Christian roots and its Graeco-Roman roots. At most times it is so firmly embedded in one tradition that the other cannot even be understood. Thus the Middle Ages Christianized Aristotle, while the modern age has secularized Jesus. In certain eras, the dominant viewpoint is no longer adequate for coping with reality, and men again grasp the full meaning of the alternative, thereby creating a mysterious Rennaissance. Thus the Alexandrine world was converted to Christianity; thus the Middle Ages were converted to Hellenism; thus the modern Alexandria will be converted once...