Phil Robertson and the Catholic Bishops on Homosexuality: St. Paul vs. Civil Law

 

DIGRESSION: Ong's sets forth his claim about the visual shift in ancient Greek philosophy in his book Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason (1958). Incidentally, Ong credits the French philosopher Louis Lavelle with being the source of his claim about the visual shift. Ong's claim about the visual shift in ancient Greek philosophy has been strengthened by Andrea Wilson Nightingale's book Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria in Its Cultural Context (2004). In effect, in his book Preface to Plato (1963), Eric A. Havelock contrasts the world-as-event sense of life involving the imagistic thinking of primary orality as exemplified in the Homeric epics, on the one hand, and, on the other, the world-as-view sense of life as exemplified in Plato's works.

 

Concerning the historical emergence and development of Christianity, Rodney Stark's books are worth a look (listed here in the order of publication):

 

The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries (1996);

 

One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism (2001);

 

For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery (2003);

 

The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success (2005);

 

Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome (2006);

 

The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion (2011). END OF DIGRESSION.

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