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Humanism
Contributed by Richard Tow on Nov 17, 2020 (message contributor)
"During the construction of Emerson Hall at Harvard University, president Charles Eliot invited psychologist and philosopher William James to suggest a suitable inscription for the stone lintel over the doors of the philosophy department. After some reflection, James sent Eliot a line from Greek philosopher Protagoras: ‘Man is the measure of all things.’ James never heard back from Eliot, so his curiosity was piqued when he spotted artisans working on a scaffold hidden by a canvas. One morning the scaffold and canvas were gone. The inscription? ‘What is man that thou are mindful of him?” Those two inscriptions represent the difference between a God-centered worldview and a human-centered worldview.
This illustration was taken from a sermon by Richard Tow entitled, "Greeting Fellow Believers" whose source was Fresh Illustrations for Preaching and Teaching edited by Edward Rockwell.
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