{"id":459,"date":"2013-02-11T23:13:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T05:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=459"},"modified":"2013-02-11T23:16:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T05:16:30","slug":"christ-and-cicero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/02\/11\/christ-and-cicero\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ and Cicero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If to admire Cicero means to be a Ciceronian, I am a Ciceronian.\u00a0 I admire him so much that I wonder at people who do not admire him.\u00a0 This may appear a new confession of my ignorance, but this is how I feel, such is my amazement.\u00a0 However, when we come to think or speak of religion, that is, of supreme truth and true happiness, and of eternal salvation, then I am certainly not a Ciceronian, or Platonist, but a Christian.&#8221;\u00a0Francesco Petrarch, &#8220;On His Own Ignorance,&#8221; in <em>The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance<\/em>, ed. Kenneth R. Bartlett, 2nd edition (Toronto 2011), p. 35.<\/p>\n<p>Petrarch sought to reconcile his devotion to the writings of Cicero and his faith as a Christian in this work.\u00a0 He argued for a Christian humanism that became the foundation of Renaissance thought.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If to admire Cicero means to be a Ciceronian, I am a Ciceronian.\u00a0 I admire him so much that I wonder at people who do not admire him.\u00a0 This may appear a new confession of my ignorance, but this is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/02\/11\/christ-and-cicero\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,34,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cicero","category-petrarch","category-renaissance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}