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pontificating over pi
Finding patterns in the random.It is an accepted fact that our world is composed up of golden spirals. That is, the human being is made up of spirals and collectively we are living within one huge spiral. The question is, … Continue reading
luther: indulgence of the spiritual investment
Martin Luther and Leo X were certainly a study of contrasts. And to think that the reformation was catalyzed by a grubby dispute over taxes to build St. Peters and a rather dubious scheme on the part of Church and … Continue reading
luther: black market of indulgences
Last summer 800 three foot high statuettes of sixteenth-century Protestant reformer Martin Luther popped up in the town square of Wittenberg in Eastern Germany. The red, green, blue and black figurines are the work of artist Ottmar Hoerl and were … Continue reading
fiddler on a hot church roof
Martin Luther is still creating controversy. Recently, about 800 statuettes of the 16th-century Protestant reformer popped up in the eastern German town of Wittenberg, where Luther first preached against practices of the Roman Catholic church almost five hundred years ago. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Johann Gottfried Schadow, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Martin Luther, mary fulbrook, Ottmar Hoerl, Pope Alexander VI, pope innocent VIII, pope Julius II, Pope Leo X, Raphael, thirty years war, William James
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DUSTUP IN ROME: THEY AGREE TO DISAGREE
“The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alec Guiness, Ara Coeli Church Rome, Arch of Titus, Ceasar Borgia, Church of Aracoeli, Dante, Dante Alighieri, Edward Gibbon, Fall of the Roman Empire 1964, Fall of the Roman Empire Movie, Henry Adams, History of Rome, Julius Ceasar, Machiavelli, Machiavelli The Prince, Mussolini, Pope Alexander VI, Pope Leo X, Saint Augustine, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Temple Menorah
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