tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post2063210069708050056..comments2024-03-24T15:19:06.377-04:00Comments on The Continuum: Fr. Wells on AscensiontideFr. Robert Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-1406281615537889932014-06-02T21:46:33.417-04:002014-06-02T21:46:33.417-04:00Thanks to Fr. Wells for this spirited defence of &...Thanks to Fr. Wells for this spirited defence of 'humanism'! I have often been astonished at how readily the term is surrendered to its hijackers or wordnappers: 'But (I think) what of Christian humanism?'<br /><br />C.S. Lewis, notably in the "Introduction" to his English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, devotes considerable attention to the complexities (including the darker aspects)of Renaissance 'humanism' and humanists (nearly all of whom he identifies as Christian: "'Humanists' in the modern sense hardly existed"). <br /><br />He says "we are their endless debtors" in thst they "recovered, edited, and expounded a great many ancient texts in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew", noting "we owe nearly all our Greeks, and many of our Latins, to the humanists: also, a prodigious advance in philology and textual criticism." <br /><br />'Humanism'in this sense has, at its best, in the course of the past 500 years, been of great service to our intelligent service of God truly become man.<br /><br />Semi-HookerianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com