Odyssey
(Homer)
Oedipus
Oedipus at Colonus
(Sophocles)
Old Testament
Oliver Twist
(Dickens)
The Omega Man
On Christian Doctrine
(Augustine)
On the Life of Moses
(Philo Judaeus)
On the Nature of Things
(Lucretius)
On the Waterfront
Orange County Register
Oration on the Dignity of Man
(Pico della Mirandola)
Orczy, Baroness Emmuska
Orestes
Origin of the Species
(Darwin)
Orwell, George
Otto the Great
Ouranus
“The Oven-Bird” (Frost)
Ovid
P
Paedogogus
(Clement of Alexandria)
paganism; God of Abraham and; love and; Middle Ages and; nature and; Renaissance and; salvation and; State and
Paine, Thomas
Paracelsis
Paradise Lost
(Milton)
Paradiso
(Dante)
Pascal, Blaise
Pasteur, Louis
paterfamilias
patriarchy; ancient Greece and; Rome and
patriotism. ancient Greece and; Christianity and; Enlightenment and; Rome and
Paul, Saint
Paul III, Pope
peace. of God; Islam and
Peace of Augsburg (1555)
Pearl
pederasty
Pelagianism
Penn, William
Pensées
(Pascal)
perfection of man
Pericles
Perkins, Frances
Persians
Persian War
The Persian Wars
(Herodotus)
pesticides
Peter, Saint
Petrarch
Petronius
Phaedra
Phaedrus
(Plato)
Philip of Macedon
Philoctetes
Philo Judaeus
philosophy. ancient Greece and; birth of; faith and; God, understanding of and; modern; natural; Renaissance and
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
Pieper, Joseph
Pietà
(Michelangelo)
piety. ancient Greece and; Catholic Church and; natural law and; Rome and
Pilgrim Fathers; Enlightenment and
Pill.
See
birth control
Pisistratus
Pius II, Pope
Pius III, Pope
Pius XI, Pope
Pius XII, Pope
The Pivot of Civilization
(Sanger)
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
Plato; Academy of; democracy and; family and; good and; justice and; love and; materialism and; mathematics and
Pliny the Younger
Plumb, J. H.
Plutarch
poetry.
See
literature
polis
political correctness. destruction of; patriotism and; twentieth century and; Western civilization and
political science
Pol Pot
Polybius
Polynices
pornography
“Porphyria’s Lover” (Browning)
Porsena
Portia
Poteat, Hubert
The Power and the Glory
(Greene)
The Prelude
(Wordsworth)
Priam, King of Troy
The Prince
(Machiavelli)
printing press
progress; Enlightenment and; nineteenth century and; science of; twentieth century and
Prohibition
Prometheus
Prometheus Unbound
(Shelley)
Protagoras
Protestant Reformation
Ptolemy
public education. democracy and; diversity and; effeminacy and; God and; Middle Ages and
Punic Wars
Puritan revolt of 1642
Puritans
Pythagoras
Q
Quakers
The Quest for the Holy Grail
Quintus Fabius Maximus
Quod apostolici muneris
(Leo XIII)
R
racialism
racism
Raleigh, Walter
Ramses II, Pharaoh
Raphael
Rasselas
(Johnson)
reason; Aristotle and; Enlightenment and; eternal law and; faith and; feelings and; limits of; Middle Ages and; passions and
The Reason of Government
(Milton)
Reflections on the Revolution in France
(Burke)
Reign of Terror
relativism
religion. ancient Greece and; Enlightenment and; freedom of; individualism and; mystery; Renaissance and; Rome and; science and; twentieth century and.
See also
Christianity
Religion and the Rise of Western Culture
(Dawson)
Rembrandt
Renaissance. art and; authority, collapse of and; Christianity and; community and; Enlightenment and; humanism and; individualism and; man, fall of and; man, glory of and; Middle Ages and; misrepresentations of; modernity and; myths about; nominalism and; paganism, resurgent and; philosophy and; religion and; science and; secularism and; witches and
Republic
(Plato)
Rerum Novarum
(Leo XIII)
Revolutionary War
Rhea
Ricci, Matteo
Richard III
(Shakespeare)
Richard of Saint Victor
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(Coleridge)
The Ring and the Book
(Browning)
Robespierre
Robinson, John
Rockwell, Norman
Romanticism
Romanticism, Romantics. Browning, Robert and; cult of the child and; Dickens, Charles and; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor ad; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor and; Leo XIII, Pope and; man, worship of and; nature, worship of by; women and.
See also
nineteenth century
Rome. as American model; anti-democratic features of; art and; ascetism and; Christianity and; citizenship in; civic responsibility and; conservatism of; democracy and; fall of; family and; homosexuality and; love and; manual labor and; patriarchy and; patriotism and; peace through strength and; piety and; religion and; Senate of; slavery and; State and; taxation and; tradition and; women and
Romulus Augustulus
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rugby Chapel
(Arnold)
Ruskin, John
Russell, Bertrand
Russia
S
Sacred and Profane Love
(Titian)
Saint Teresa in Ecstasy
(Bernini)
Sallust
salvation; Enlightenment and; faith and; God and; grace and; Jesus and; Middle Ages and; paganism and; time and; by works
Sanger, Margaret
Satyricon
(Petronius)
Savonarola, Girolamo
The Scarlet Letter
(Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
(Orczy)
School of Athens
(Raphael)
Schumacher, E. F.
science. ancient Greece and; Enlightenment and; eugenic; God and; Middle Ages and; natural; nineteenth century and; Old Testament God and; of progress; religion and; Renaissance and
scientism
Scipio
Scopes “monkey trial”
Scott, Sir Walter
Scotus, John
Second Treatise of Government
(Locke)
Second Vatican Council
secularism. Founding Fathers and; Renaissance and
Seneca
sentimentalism
Septuagint
Sexual Revolution
Shakespeare, William
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well Being
(Spinoza)
Sidney, Phillip
Silent Spring
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
slavery. ancient Greece and; Christianity and; Jesus and; Rome and
social atomism
socialism
Socrates
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Song of Myself
(Whitman)
Sophists
Sophocles
The Sound of Music
Southey, Robert