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Throughout his long career, Edward Shils brought a wide knowledge
of academic institutions to discussions about higher education.
"The Calling of Education" features Shils's most incisive writing
on this topic from the last 25 years of his life. The first essay,
"The Academic Ethic," articulates the unique ethical demands of the
academic profession and directs special attention to the
integration of teaching and research. Other pieces, including
Shils's renowned Jefferson lectures, focus on perennial issues in
higher learning: the meaning of academic freedom, the connection
between universities and the state, and the criteria for appointing
individuals to academic positions. Edward Shils understood the
university as a great symphonic conductor comprehends the value of
each instrument and section, both separately and in co-operation.
"The Calling of Education" offers Shils's insightful perspective on
problems that are no less pressing than when he first confronted
them.
Hebraism in Religion, History, and Politics is an investigation
into Hebraism as a category of cultural analysis within the history
of Christendom. Its aim is to determine what Hebraism means or
should mean when it is used. The characteristics of Hebraism
indicate a changing relation between the Old and New Testaments
that arose in Medieval and early modern Europe, between on the one
hand a doctrinally universal Christianity, and on the other various
Christian nations that were understood as being a 'new Israel'.
Thus, Hebraism refers to the development of a paradoxically
intriguing 'Jewish Christianity' or an 'Old Testament
Christianity'. It represents a 'third culture' in contrast to the
culture of Roman or Hellenistic empire and Christian universalism.
There were attempts, with varying success, during the twentieth
century to clarify Hebraism as a category of cultural history and
religious history. Steven Grosby expertly contributes to that
clarification. In so doing, the possibility arises that Hebraism
and Hebraic culture offer a different way to look at religion, its
history, and the history of the West.
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