Christianity and Culture: The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1960 - Religion - 202 pages
Two long essays: "The Idea of a Christian Society" on the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems; and "Notes towards the Definition of Culture" on culture, its meaning, and the dangers threatening the legacy of the Western world.

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Preface
3
Notes
52
Postscript
69
Notes towards the Definition of Culture
79
The Unity of European Culture
187
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THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

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