After Pentecost: A History of Christian Ideas and Institutions from Peter and Paul to Ignatius of Antioch

1937 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 276
Author(s):  
MacKinley Helm ◽  
Robert P. Casey
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Ideas And Institutions

2. The history of EU institutions:

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-47
Author(s):  
Renaud Dehousse ◽  
Paul Magnette
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Current Phase ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Past ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
Five Phases ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Ideas And Institutions

EU institutions have frequently been reformed since the origins of what is now the European Union (EU), and particularly so over the past twenty years. This chapter explains why and how this quasi-constant change has taken place. It begins by identifying five phases in this history: the founding, consolidation, relaunch, adaptation, and the current phase of reaction to functional challenges. The chapter then assesses the respective weight of state interests, ideas, and institutions in the evolution of EU institutions. In retrospect, institutional change in the EU appears to have followed a functionalist logic, leading to complex compromises that, in turn, prompt regular calls for ‘simplification’ and democratization.

How can the History of Economic thought Contribute to an Understanding of Institutional Change?

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Zweynert
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
World View ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Capability ◽  
Ideas And Institutions

Since Moses Abramovitz's “classic” paper on “Catching-Up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind” (1986) economists have become increasingly aware again of the significance of “social capability” for processes of economic change. During the past twenty years much research has been done on “soft” determinants of development and growth. Especially some of the so-called new institutionalists and evolutionary economists have now returned to the roots of the institutional research program by acknowledging that “ideas matter” in the process of institutional change. However, it is still often overlooked in the literature that the cognition of social reality is deeply intertwined with the general world-view prevailing in a given society. Certainly, such general world-views are partly determined by the level of economic and technological development, but they are also a reflection of deeply rooted cultural traditions. In particular, the highly divergent outcomes of economic and political transition in the formerly socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe have brought the connection between culture, ideas, and institutions to the fore again (see, for example, Winiecki 2004). Therefore it is all but an accident that it is one of the leading transition experts who has recently called on economists to “seek a better understanding of the role of values and norms in shaping both ideas and institutions” (Roland 2004, p. 128).

Some French Reactions to the Council of Trent

1964 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Kingdon
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Council Of Trent ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Ideas And Institutions

In this age of growing ecumenicism, many scholars are turning to the history of the sixteenth century for a fresh examination of the origins of those ideas and institutions which continue to divide the Christian community. During these years of the widely publicized meetings of an ecumenical council sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church, many are turning specifically to the canons and decrees drafted by the Council of Trent for a fresh study of the extent to which they do or must divide Christians. But fully to understand these Tridentine decisions from an ecumenical perspective requires not only a knowledge of their texts and of the debates from which they emerged. It requires also a knowledge of the hostile reactions which they aroused among the many Christians who would not accept these decisions or the authority of those who promulgated them. An interesting spectrum of such reactions can be found among French criticisms of Trent published during the sixteenth century. Of these publications, three semto me to demonstrate this proposition neatly: one by a distinguished French theologian, John Calvin; a second by a dustinguished French Jurisconsult, Charles Dumoulin; a third by a prominent French lawyer and historian, Innocent Gentillet. These works have not been ignored by such experts on the historiography of Trent as professor Jedin. But I feel they merit a more detailed and more considered examination than they have as yet received. This paper sketches some of the lines upon which such an examination might proceed.

Early Medieval Missionary Activity: A Comparative Study of Eastern and Western Methods

1954 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Related Problem ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Religion ◽  
Ideas And Institutions

One of the more fascinating problems connected with the history of the early Middle Ages is the persistence of similarities and the emergence of differences in the ideas and institutions of the eastern and western remnants of the Roman Empire. Equally intriguing is the related problem of the origins and the nature of the differences which characterize the Slavic and Germanic groups that fell under the influence of the Greeks and the Latins during the early Middle Ages. This paper will attempt to throw some light, on these problems by examining the field of missionary history. It will try to compare the methods employed by the eastern and western missionaries to convert the Slavic and Germanic groups living on the borders of Christendom in the period from about A.D. 600 to 900. Such a comparison might be revealing. It will permit one to see wherein the Greeks and the Latins acted alike or differently as each attacked the same problem. It will also allow one to detect some of the formative forces implanted in the Slavic and Germanic worlds as each underwent the fundamental experience of adopting a new religion.

scholarly journals Uczeni i ich losy… – Mirosław Skarżyński jako badacz dziejów polskiej lingwistyki

LingVaria ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Czelakowska
Keyword(s):  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Source Information ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Procedure ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Institutions ◽  
Ideas And Institutions

Scholars and Their Fates… – Mirosław Skarżyński as a Researcher of the History of Polish Linguistics The paper presents Mirosław Skarżyński’s studies in the field of the history of Polish linguistics, and their consecutive phases: history of ideas (concepts, grammatical descriptions); history of people – researchers who once laid the foundations of scientific linguistics; and history of institutions. The emerging picture reveals that the research procedure adopted by Skarżyński was analogous to the method of historical sciences which demand that facts of the past should be described based on direct source information. In this perspective, the description of Polish linguistics must have been preceded by a considerable number of detailed studies, and publication of sources. Skarżyński put particular emphasis on the edition of memoirs and correspondence from the past. He saw in them not merely a complementary fond of information in research on the history of ideas and institutions, but primarily a road to understanding the personalities and fates of past scholars, as well as the conditions in which Polish scientific linguistics was born.

Reclaiming Theology for the Enlightenment: The Case of Siegmund Jacob Baumgarten (1706–1757)

2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Sorkin
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
New Information ◽  
New Synthesis ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
History Of ◽  
Jonathan Israel ◽  
New View ◽  
Ideas And Institutions

The new millennium appears to be ushering in a new view of the Enlightenment. The synthesis of the 1930s to the 1970s had posited a unitary Enlightenment that was the matrix of a modern secular or secularizing culture. The authority of reason and science either fully displaced, or fundamentally challenged and thus forced the reconstruction of, the claims of belief and tradition. From the 1970s a social history of ideas and institutions explored the Enlightenment's seemingly infinite regional and national variations, subverting the unitary notion and yielding a mass of new information. The works of J.G.A. Pocock and Jonathan Israel, James E. Bradley and Dale K. Van Kley, have begun to build on this accumulated scholarship, offering a new synthesis that rests on two related notions.

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