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Incarnational humanism is a type of Christian humanism which places central importance on the Incarnation, the belief that Jesus Christ was truly and fully human. In this context, divine revelation from God independent of the Incarnation is seen as untrustworthy precisely because it is exempt from the vagaries of human discourse.
Lee Oser was born in New York City in 1958. He is of Irish Catholic and Russian Jewish descent. He attended public high school on Long Island.After playing in rock bands and working odd jobs in Portland, Oregon, he received a B.A. from Reed College in 1988 and a Ph.D. in English from Yale University in 1995.
Henry James presented a mixed opinion, Middlemarch, according to him, was "at once one of the strongest and one of the weakest of English novels ... Middlemarch is a treasure-house of details, but it is an indifferent whole". Among the details, his greatest criticism ("the only eminent failure in the book") was of the character of Ladislaw, who ...
Middlemarch is a 1994 television adaptation of the 1871 novel of the same name by George Eliot. Produced by the BBC on BBC2 in six episodes (seven episodes in the worldwide TV series), it is the second such adaptation for television of the novel.
'Erasmus is the greatest man we come across in the history of education!' (R.R. Bolger) … with greater confidence it can be claimed that Erasmus is the greatest man we come across in the history of education in the sixteenth century. …It may also be claimed that Erasmus was one of the most important champions of women's rights in his century.
Daniel Hermann (c. 1543–1601) was a diplomat and Renaissance humanist. He was born in the town of Nidzica, where his father was the mayor. He studied at several universities, although never earned a formal degree. From 1572 or 1573 he worked as a diplomat in the service first of the Imperial Court and then later for the city of Gdańsk.
John Colet (January 1467 – 16 September 1519) was an English Catholic priest and educational pioneer.. Colet was an English scholar, Renaissance humanist, theologian, member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, London.
The High Middle Ages saw the formation of several fundamental Christian doctrines such as the seven sacraments, that the reward for labour should be set by what was just and not what benefitted a particular group, "the terms of Christian marriage, the nature of clerical celibacy and the appropriate lifestyle for priests". [261]