Serviam: The Political Ideology of Adrien Arcand by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0000000000000
Published: 2022-09-08T17:41:24+00:00

A Movement That Animates All Domains

With Christianity, all becomes alive, mobile and dynamic. The old mathematics have awoken from their slumber and become animated by formulas that antiquity would never have suspected; the primality of astronomy threw itself into complex and glaring developments; geometry was put into high gear; mechanics captured and mastered living forces; chemistry revealed one secret after another. The science of man almost generates other sciences, and techniques birth new techniques. This is true until we arrive at the vision of pure energy, the last layer in which one can only find God. In arts, [we see] the same intensity and enthusiasm of the liberated soul. The long ogive, as two parallel lines meet at the horizon, shows shape, pattern, and curvature that were until then a mystery.⁵⁶ Music soared to strange heights and, with the fugue of a uniquely Christian spirit, gained access to an elusive fluidity. The Christian conception of justice paved the way for a common right and a jurisprudence of incomparable beauty. Painting and sculpture were no longer content with simply reproducing the exterior aspect with fidelity; it was the soul and the interior pathos that were ripped out and revealed. All the splendor of living philosophy incorporated within the unwavering scholastics that all external opposition could not dare chip away at. Then, as the apotheosis of human genius that bathes in the light of God with joyous exaltation, it is the summation of Catholic theology and its finest commentaries that responds to all questions, calms all doubts, annihilates all objections. All this because the Western world, thanks to Christianity, can live a new life of humanity and share in the life of He who vanquished death. There are only two phases in the entire history of human spirituality: a phase of death and of humanity not redeemed, and a phase of life and of humanity redeemed. Of the same history of scientific development and artistic development it can be said there are also two parallel phases. These are the phase of status quo and inertia of the pre-Christian era, and the phase of movement and dynamism of the Christian era. […]

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