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...then at the gentleman's hour of 11 comes a Renaissance course that you cannot well afford to miss: the third episode from Paul Tillich's own ring cycle: "The Self-Interpretation of Man in Western Thought." This term, Dr. Tillich has reached the Italian Renascimento, Nicolaus Cusanus, and Michelangelo...
...reformer Zwingli in 1529. and Luther always maintained that when the Christian believer received the host, the bread contained the body of Christ as a glove contains a hand. Luther also stood fast against such other variants of Protestantism as the humanists represented by Erasmus, and the radicals like Nicolaus Storch and Marcus Stubner, who wanted to do away with the apparatus of the church altogether. The ordained minister and the liturgy. Luther maintained, were necessary to the sacraments and the sacraments were necessary to the Christian...
Boylston Prizes were founded in 1817 "for the delivery of memorized selections from English, Greek, or Latin literature," in honor of Nicolaus Boylston. The competition provides five cash awards to undergraduates in good standing who reach the finals, with two top prizes of $35 each...
...flue of the Ptolemaic-Aristotelian universe, and ran into trouble. In any other hands, the telescope might have been only a passing novelty. In Galileo's it pointed back to a neglected but explosive treatise called Revolution of the Celestial Orbs, written a half-century before by Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. On mathematical grounds, Copernicus had questioned the natural philosophy of Aristotle and the astronomy of Ptolemy which taught that the earth stood still in the center of the universe while the heavens revolved around it every 24 hours, and had gone on to suggest that, perhaps, the earth revolved...
...infinitely manifold and inexhaustible. So are also man, society, and culture as a part of the reality-value. It has empirical (sensory) and super-empirical aspects; rational and irrational; logical and non-logical, material and non-material. It is a veritable coincidentia oppositorium of Johannes Scotus Erigena and Nicolaus Cusanus. --Professor Sorokin in the Harvard Progressive...