Axial

Wright's book is misleading because the 'evolution' indicated is really a fragment part of the so-called Axial Age, which also gave birth to (at least one) 'atheist' religion.

Darwiniana 2009

There is a curious phase in the history of humanity called the Axial Age.

The Lesson Plan 2009

The irony that this linear, escahatological view of history should emerge in the mysterious moment of the so-called Axial Age, whose cyclical interpretation we will discover, and which will drive us to see their synthesis, the cyclical driving the linear, in the eonic effect.

Darwiniana 2008

The question of religion in world history is highly complex, and needs to start in the Neolithic (or, most certainly in the Paleolithic, had we the data), and proceed to study the transformations with time, up to the period of the so-called Axial period, after which we see the great religions as we know them now.

Darwiniana 2008

It is the period ca. -600, plus and minus, that is in fact our subject, for it is this era that is the rough center of gravity of a great transformation, known as the Axial Age.

Darwiniana 2008

The Enlighitenment is the climax of the great 'Axial' transformation succeeding the Axial Age.

Darwiniana 2010

We see clearly that this distinction is necessary because of the obvious and inexplicable discontinuity of the Axial Age, a discontinuity in the historical sequence, and in the parallel emergentism of separate 'Axial' zones.

Darwiniana nemo 2010

The Enlighitenment is the climax of the great 'Axial' transformation succeeding the Axial Age.

Darwiniana nemo 2010

"Where the homestead shack once stood, we find the bustling town of Axial, which is being built under the master direction of General Manager M. T. Streeter, a builder of towns, builder of railroads, developer of mines, who was fortunate to have his attention called to this wonderful property and who saw enough evidence of the future while making his first trip of inspection which convinced him that this should be his greatest success.

Craig Daily Press stories 2009

We have a tendency to project our own intellectual culture, including abstract god concepts back into history, However, during the Axial Period when the world's great religions emerged, the gods (think Shiva, Zeus, Mithra, Yahweh) were typically person-gods.

Valerie Tarico: Psychology of God: Do Christians Believe God Has Emotions? Valerie Tarico 2010