His Val en Worp was followed in 1929-30 by his commentary (in Dutch) on Euclid's Elements. His Archimedes was written before the War; its English translation appeared in 1956. In 1943 his Simon Stevin appeared, and in 1950 the best known of his works, De M echanisering van het W ereldbeeld, was published; the latter has been translated into Gorman and English. Besides these books, he published a large number of papers, lectures and addresses on historical, educational and philosophical subjects. His longest-lasting activity was that of chairman of the Royal Netherlands Academy Commission on the Edition of Works of Simon Stevin, which still met at his home when he had lost his speech and had to rely on gestures to conduct its meetings. Educated people, and above all scholars of the human• ities, were struck by his style. He abstained completely from metaphors, puns, oratorical and dramatic effects, a.nd from any choice of words that would excite emotions rather than thoughts. He was a lover of art and poetry, but in his own work he never gave way to the spell of rhetoric. He put his thoughts into a form which matched their contents, and above all matched his character. He wished to grip the reader by the subject rather than by the form-though just for this reason it was the form which fascinated. For his De Mechanisering van het Wereldbeeld he was awarded a high literary honour; he was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, a bearer of the Karl Sudhoff Medal of the Deutsche Gesellschaft ftir Geschichte der Medizin, N aturwissenschaften und Technik, the George Sarton Medal of the American History of Science Society and many other honorary awards. H. FREUDENTHAL
pius. This analysis notes the significant differences in senatorial attitudes between the West and the East, hardly surprising given the distinctive legal, political, and military situations. This informative monograph is completed by a historiographical essay, an extensive list of the printed editions of sources cited, a bibliography, and a serviceable index. The list of secondary studies includes only those works the author considered significant to the theme; as a consequence there are many publications in the footnotes and the "Literaturbericht" which are not included in the bibliography but nevertheless are not tangential. Naf has accumulated a body of evidence to demonstrate the degree to which Christianitas impacted an ancient bulwark of Romanitas (see also William M. Daly, " Christianitas Eclipses Romanitas in the Life of Sidonius Apollinaris," in Religion, Culture,
Many traditional Protestants are rereading their heritages through the Church catholic. That includes reading them through Eastern Orthodoxy. To bring forward the best of any particular Christian heritage for the whole Church or to enrich such a heritage by drawing from the whole Church, we need to be keen students of church history, scripture and contemporary situations. Every effort to restate the gospel for the next century must recognize that people see through their participation in communities. All Christians worship together in some kinds of congregations. We may try to get distance from what we believe and how we act, but if we move outside the circle, we take up a stance within another community. As Christians we read and understand from within the Church.
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