THE LIBERATING PATH OF THE HEBREW PROPHETS: THEN AND NOW. By NahumWard‐Lev. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 2019. Pp. xxvi + 235. $26.00.

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 538-538
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Prophets

Maimonides on Listening to Music

1933 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 867-884 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry George Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Early Christian ◽  
Hebrew Prophets

In all ages there have been puritans who have looked upon “wine, woman, and song” as things to be avoided. In the East especially, and it was in the East that the phrase was born, the proscription of this trinity of joys was a question of serious moment. It was the cry of the old Hebrew prophets, and it was echoed by the early Christian fathers, as well as by the purists of Islām. To some extent, one can appreciate why wine and woman came to be proscribed, but that song was included is not so easily understood. Yet, when one sees how music is capable of affecting the peoples of the East, coupled with the fact that music with them has invariably been found as a concomitant with wine and woman, it will be more readily appreciated how listening to music came to be looked upon, as Burton said, as being unworthy of, if not unlawful for, those who trod the path of righteousness.

Clement of Alexandria (AD 150–215)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Chadwick
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Free Choice ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Aristotelian Logic ◽  
Clement Of Alexandria ◽  
Biblical Study ◽  
Hebrew Prophets

Clement of Alexandria, a Christian Platonist, came to conversion through philosophy. In a series of allusive writings he presented a Hellenized Christianity along with the philosophical syncretism of his age: Stoic ethics, Aristotelian logic and especially Platonic metaphysics. Just as Paul saw the Hebrew prophets and law as a preparation for the Gospel, Clement saw Christianity as making possible a confluence of Plato and the Old Testament, both offering anticipations of Jesus’ teaching. Clement’s fusion of Platonism and Christianity vehemently opposed the dualism and determinism of gnostic theosophy, and stressed free choice and responsibility as fundamental to moral values. Central to his writing is the vindication of faith as the foundation for growth in religious knowledge by philosophical contemplation and biblical study.

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