Bellitto, Christopher M.: Humility

The Secret History of a Lost Virtue

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"This book is an accessible discussion of humility for a general audience that aims to recover a lost virtue and to offer humility as a way forward for our divided society. It's a cultural history-the biography of an idea. Recovering humility might serve as an alternative to the diseases of hubris, arrogance, and narcissism that have infected us. The frightening alternative to a life of humility has been the death of civility. History demonstrates that when the virtue of humility is cast aside, hubris follows. This book explores treatments of humility in Greco-Roman history, philosophy, and literature; ancient and medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptures and sermons; and Enlightenment and contemporary discussions on education in virtue and citizenship"--

Autor	Bellitto, Christopher M.
Verlag	Georgetown University Press
Einband	Fester Einband
Erscheinungsjahr	2023
Seitenangabe	176 S.
Meldetext	Folgt in ca. 10 Arbeitstagen
Ausgabekennzeichen	Englisch
Masse	H13.5 cm x B21.1 cm x D2.2 cm 286 g

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ISBN: 978-1-64712-376-5

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Über den Autor Bellitto, Christopher M.

Dr. Christopher M. Bellitto is professor of history at Kean University in New Jersey, where he teaches courses in ancient and medieval history. With a focus on church history and reform, he has twice won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a visiting scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary and a Fulbright specialist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Dr. Bellitto serves as series editor in chief of Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition and academic editor at large for Paulist Press. He also frequently offers public lectures and comments in the media on church history and contemporary Catholicism.