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From Faith to Faith. Luther found that missing love in the study of Scripture. Assigned to the chair of Biblical studies at Wittenberg University, he became fascinated and puzzled by the emphasis on righteousness in the Psalms and in Paul's epistles-notably Romans 1: 17: "For therein is...
Sails for Sunlight. The Genoese have been loath to change their ways even in the face of economic decline. Today, the city's richest businessmen still walk to work rather than buy automobiles; only recently did the last of them abandon the electricity-pinching practice of using white sails...
In a fable, Borges imagines Droc-tulft, a barbarian, fighting against the Romans at the siege of Ravenna. When Droctulft's eyes fix on the city he is helping to storm, he sees for the first time "a whole that is complex and yet without disorder. He knows that...
Powerful Conquerors. The 316,000 Maltese have good reason for panic. Historically, they have largely relied on the patronage of their powerful conquerors. Among them were the Phoenicians, who sailed ashore about 1400 B.C., the Carthaginians, the Romans and the French. The island has no oil or other resources, no...
War to the death only began to go out of style when the belligerents recognized some kind of relationship, as in the case of the Greek city states, which tried to soften their deadly rivalry through diplomacy and mercy. But such temperateness was strictly limited to social equals; Aristotle, who...