... philosophical growth, beginningwith the early Church Fathers and culminating in the greatScholastics. But, at last, its generative ideas—sin and salvation,nature and grace, unity, infinity, and kingdom—had ... concepts,from baffling limits of inquiry, and hailed the new world-pic-ture with a hope of truer orientation in life, art, and action.After a while the confusions and shadows inherent in the new vision ... pressure of new interests, new emotions—the crowding modern ideas and artistic inspira-tion we call the Renaissance.After several centuries of sterile tradition, logic-chopping, and partisanship in...