Published date: Sunday, January 18, 2004
By: Edwin Judge
Professor Edwin Judge examines the two sources of Western culture—the classical world and the Bible. He argues that the Bible has made the greater impact.
The cliché that we are now in a ‘post-Christian’ age is superficial. It no doubt allows for the fact that church-going is no longer a matter of convention, and that it is no longer the fashion to cite the Bible as a public authority (which, insofar as it was only window-dressing, we are better
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