(November 9, 2018 at 10:37 am)Khemikal Wrote: Our western tradition is not incomprehensible or impossible to arrive at absent christian contributions because our western tradition is not based upon christianity..[...]
This is a new idea for me. I'm surprised by this.
I guess when I think of western tradition I just think of the tradition we have. Good and bad, like it or not, the way it worked out.
Are you saying that there's a real western tradition independent of Christianity, despite the fact that there's a lot of Christian stuff in European history? Is this a kind of essentialism, which goes underground when the Christians are influential?
I mean, I know that Christian theology is a mixture of ideas from various sources -- Greek, Hebrew, what have you. But I guess I thought that was all a part of western tradition.