The One and the Many: Studies in the Philosophy of Order and UltimacyThe question of where ultimacy lies should be central to the Christian. It is easy to see the social implications of allowing priority to fall to either the one or the many. This volume examines in-depth the Christian solution to the problem of the one and the many - the Trinitarian God. Only in the godhead is this dilemma resolved. Only in the Trinity does there reside an equal ultimacy of unity and plurality. Rushdoony examines the history of Western thought from the standpoint of the one and the many and demonstrates clearly that the most astute thinkers were unable to resolve this philosophical conflict. What is needed now is a complete return to the Trinitarian view of God and its implications for a Christian social order. |
Contents
Mysticism | |
Gnosticism | |
Christianity and the Family | |
Abortion | |
Emperor Worship | |
Creation and History | |
History and | |
Constantine the Great | |
Mesopotamia | |
Persia | |
The Chain of Being | |
The Bible and the Concept of Being | |
Being and Society | |
The Humanists Homeland | |
Greek Science and Philosophy | |
The ChaosOrder Dialectic | |
The Esoteric State | |
The Polis as Cosmos | |
The One and the Many | |
Socrates and Plato | |
Aristotle | |
Rome The City of Man 1 The Priority of the State | |
Cicero and the Rule of Reason | |
Julius Caesar | |
Chaos Cults | |
Cicero and Revolution | |
Cicero and the State | |
Caesar and the New State | |
The New Perversity | |
Marcus Aurelius | |
Commodus | |
Last Hopes in Chaos | |
ChristThe World Dedivinized 1 War Against the Gods | |
Arianism | |
Nicaea | |
Constantinople I | |
The Orthodox Faith vs Heresies | |
Ephesus | |
Chalcedon | |
Pelagianism and Asceticism | |
Deprecation of Matter and History | |
Augustine on the Pelagians | |
The Church as New Rome | |
Later Councils | |
The One and the Many | |
The Returnof Dialectic Thought 1 Boethius | |
Scholasticism | |
Aquinas Task 4 Thomistic Dialecticism | |
Noetics and Ethics | |
Common Ground in Being | |
The One and the Many in Aquinas | |
The State | |
Frederick II and DanteThe World Redivinized 1 Medieval Civilization | |
Frederick II | |
Dante | |
Dantes View of the State | |
The Witness of The Divine Comedy | |
Pope John XXIII | |
The Immanent One as the Power State | |
The ReformationThe Problem Redefined | |
UtopiaThe New City of | |
Autonomous Manand the New Order | |
Hume | |
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