The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s5.9

c5.s5.9

Von Glasenapp's review of Schweitzer's book is both critical and constructive. In the first place, he refers to the fact that during the first 1500 years of Christianity the world-denying (*weltverneinenden*) tendencies are strongly in evidence. During the Renaissance and the Reformation also they are described as important especially in Roman and Greek Christendom. He doubts if it is possible to take these negative features as foreign to the real nature of Christianity.