{“The Decade of Evangelism” [continued]}[5th January 1991]

[Redbook8:169][19910105:1005b]{“The Decade of Evangelism” [continued]}[5th January 1991]

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It* might not have been altogether too late* if the question had been addressed: why do revivals, however successful in the short run, always fail (ie lose the numbers they gained)** when they peter*** out some years later?

C[ircles] A[nalysis] & S[ynthesis] suggests that this has to do with a failure to turn at C and return on the i[nner] c[ircle].

In Christian terms, this can be resolved into a choice between predominance of Love and Law; and the follow-up to Revival almost invariable involves Law (ie organisation, doctrine, covenant etc.) to the virtual exclusion of Love.****

*[See last previous entry]

**[Age & death?]

***[sic...]

****[But what if those revived/revivalists who do make the turn at C internalise their motivation through Love, eschewing Law, organisation, &c, become thereby effectively invisible to the outer world?]

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{“The Decade of Evangelism”}[5th January 1991]

[Redbook8:168-169][19910105:1005]{“The Decade of Evangelism”}[5th January 1991]

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1991

[A cutting from The Guardian 901231:3 inserted here in the ms but not copied in the ts, headed ‘Church call to go forth and multiply’, begins: ‘As the second millennium approaches, a 10-year campaign to win recruits to the Christian fold is being launched in cathedrals, churches and chapels throughout Britain. The Decade of Evangelism, which starts on Sunday, is being supported by denominations across the board....’ One paragraph is highlighted in the ms as follows: ‘The British recruitment drive is part of a worldwide effort by Christian churches. “The odd thing is, no one knows quite how the idea began,” Canon Finney [The Church of England’s officer for the Decade] said. “The Pope was talking about a 10-year evangelistic effort in the earlier eighties, and Anglican bishops from all over the world made a similar call at the 1988 Lambeth conference.”’]

I have had to think seriously about why I don’t feel fired with enthusiasm for the Churches’ Decade of Evangelism: rather the reverse, in fact.

One, highly rationalised, factor is that in C[ircles] A[nalysis] & S[ynthesis] periods it has probably come too late: only the Pope seems to have got it right, as spontaneous revivals normally begin at or within a few years of C;* but they do have to be spontaneous.

*[This is an over-simplification of earlier suggestions; see eg:

[Redbook7:85][19900313:1528b]{Revival Cycles (1)}[13th March 1990];

[Redbook7:288][19900913:2209]{Revival Cycles (2)}[13th September 1990];

[Redbook7:289][19900913:2209c]{Revival Cycles (2) (continued)*}[13th September 1990]

[Redbook7:289][19900913:2209d]{Revival Cycles (2) (continued)[continued]}[13th September 1990]]

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{Geometric Pottery}[31st December 1990]

[Redbook8:166-167*][19901231:1301d]{Geometric Pottery}[31st December 1990]

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(Pottery Greek)

‘Geometric style. Around 900 BC[E] another great step forward occurred, into the Geometric style proper. Some of the old motifs, concentric circles for example, were dropped, but others such as zig-zags and triangles were elaborated. New elements were introduced, including meanders, swastikas, and a variety of linear and essentially Geometric designs.’**

***

‘Around 800BC[E] the first figures were introduced: horses, then goats and deer,**** birds, dogs, lions, and finally human beings.# Drawings were in silhouette, and remained schematic. The artist drew what he knew to exist, rather than what he saw.’#*

#**

*{[Copy illustration from] E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt]1:116 <inserted 910725> [on ms p167]

[‘An Attic Geometric grave-amphora by the Dipylon Master; […]; National Museum, Athens’]}

{cf [[Redbook8:161][19901229:1210d]{Crisis Resolution in Aegean Pottery Cycles}[29th December 1990]&f,] 161,

[[Redbook8:162][19901229:1210f]{Mycenaean Frescoes}[29th December 1990]ff,

& [Redbook8:162][19901229:1210h]{Marine Spirals}[29th December 1990]&f,] 162}

**(including rosettes)

*** ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 1,] 115

****

J~; R~-C, G~;

#S~; M~-U~?, U~; A~??#***

#*{cf [[Redbook8:236-237][19910207:1615]{Evolution on Archaic Greek Vases}[7th February 1991],] 236#****

IX [] 137}

#**[ibid, presumably]

#***[Sic. Why not R~?]

#****[ref presumed to be to corrected ms page numbering];

{<19910203>}

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{Protogeometric Pottery}[31st December 1990]

[Redbook8:166(&167)*][19901231:1301c]{Protogeometric Pottery}[31st December 1990]

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(Greek Pottery from c1050bce)

‘The repertoire consisted largely of horizontal bands and lines, often in groups of two or three, and concentric circles or semi-circles applied with compasses and a multiple brush. These simple patterns led to the more varied designs of the ensuing Geometric style, so this period is usually called Proto-geometric.

‘The patterns themselves were found all over Iron Age Europe, but their organisation on the vase was peculiar to Greek art.’

– E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt] 1:115

*{[Copy illustration from] E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt]1:115 <inserted 910725> [on ms p167]

[‘An Attic Protogeometric amphora; […]; c950BC[E]. Kerameikos Museum, Athens’]}

{cf [[Redbook8:161][19901229:1210d]{Crisis Resolution in Aegean Pottery Cycles}[29th December 1990]&f,] 161,

[[Redbook8:162][19901229:1210f]{Mycenaean Frescoes}[29th December 1990]ff,

& [Redbook8:162][19901229:1210h]{Marine Spirals}[29th December 1990]&f,] 162}

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{Religious Festival Cycles}[31st December 1990]

[Redbook8:165][19901231:1301b]{Religious Festival Cycles}[31st December 1990]

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[continued]

‘The Pythian festival **|(at Delphi*)|** was reorganised on a larger scale, with athletic and other competitions; it was to be held every four years, and the year 582[bce]*** was reckoned as the first Pythiad.’

****

– The Olympic festival was also held every 4 years, reckoning the first to have been in 776bce;# the Isthmian Games and the Nemean Games were celebrated every 2 years.

*ie for the Oracle

**[text bracketed between **| & |** is in square brackets in the ms paragraph, indicating insertion in the ms]

***Shame!

{(64C[,]512R~[=]576BCE => 64R~584}

**** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20], 258

#{64C[,]512J~[=]768[bce] => 64R~776}

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{Tyranny, Aristocracy, and Democracy [continued (3)]}[31st December 1990]

[Redbook8:165][19901231:1301]{Tyranny, Aristocracy, and Democracy [continued (3)]}[31st December 1990]

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‘For the battle of Plataea in 479, Sparta supplied 5,000 citizen hoplites and 35,000 helots; the helots were servicing troops, not fighting troops, but it would have been foolish to surround every armed man with seven thoroughly disaffected men, even if the latter were unarmed.’

– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 20: 252

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{Tyranny, Aristocracy, and Democracy [continued]*}[30th December 1990]

[Redbook8:164-165][19901230:1614d]{Tyranny, Aristocracy, and Democracy [continued]*}[30th December 1990]

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[continued]

*BUT: ‘a widely accepted theory says that in consequence of the change **|(c[irca] 700-650[bce]ff from combat by individual warrior champions*** to use of hoplite (infantry) phalanxes****)|**, the burden of fighting passed from relatively few aristocrats# to a wider class of substantial peasant farmers;#* that the latter accordingly demanded a share in political power;#** and that revolutionary rulers, the tyrants of the 7^th century, arose as their leaders.#*** Against this view, it has been argued that peasant farmers #**** were more likely to be conservative than revolutionary, and they would dislike war and disturbance as threatening their land and taking them away from tillage; in Etruria and Rome hoplite tactics were adopted during a period of aristocratic ascendancy.’##

##*

*[from last entry but one]

**[text bracketed between **| & |** is in square brackets in the ms paragraph, indicating insertion in the ms]

***M~

****A~

#S~

#*U~ff

#**J~,G~

#***C(→S~)

#****U~

##S~

##* – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20], 247

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[Ritual Purification and Mystery Religions][30th December 1990]

[Redbook8:164][19901230:1614c][Ritual Purification and Mystery Religions][30th December 1990]

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[continued]

(See ibid* 245 (distinguishing ritual purification (eg Orphism, Pythagoreanism) from ‘mystery’ religions (eg at Eleusis) – apparently).)

*[Encyclopaedia Britannica 20:245]

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{Tyranny, Aristocracy, and Democracy}[30th December 1990]

[Redbook8:164-165][19901230:1614b]{Tyranny, Aristocracy, and Democracy}[30th December 1990]

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[continued]

‘The progress* [in the Greek colonies]** was generally from aristocracy*** to rule by tyrants,**** but the landowners of Syracuse were long influential.’#

Should really be the other way round, unless this is not O[uter] C[ircle]; but how could that be?#*

*[sic]

**(c750-500 Colonising (& proper [sic] Archaic) Period

***S~?

****C(→S~)

(not necessarily oppressive: [more] like the town ‘Boss’ now)

# – E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 20:243

#*[See next entry but one]

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