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Charles Norris Cochrane (1889–1945)

Auteur van Christianity and Classical Culture

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Very smart, long-range study. I read it primarily to prepare for teaching Augustine, and those chapters were truly excellent. Cochrane's chapters on lesser lights were also solid, as best I could tell.

But I very much, having considered at length the intellectual merits of Cochrane's not to be excelled argument, which deftly intertwines thinking both classical Roman and early Christian, regret that, when considering how such an argument ought to be presented to hoi polloi, the conclusion that of all forms by far and away the best was ultra-Latinate prose, replete with clauses in places distracting and, for English, unnatural, was reached by our author.

It's a fucker of thing to read on the train.
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stillatim | 2 andere besprekingen | Oct 23, 2020 |
Fabulous account of Christian Europe's foundations. As helpful as Auden is said to have found it, not to mention Lesslie Newbigin.
 
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ted_newell | 2 andere besprekingen | Jun 20, 2015 |
A fascinating examination of the cultural weaknesses that flowed from Rome's pagan culture, contrasted with the culture that flowed from the new Christian faith.
 
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