Corpus-Paul

["John Brand" <jbrand AT gvsd.mb.ca>]

Thanks, Ed. I'm not particularly worried about saving face (i.e. 
avoiding embarassment) and have had many dialogues with those 
conversant with Toynbee even though much of what he posits has become 
outdated. I would enjoy looking at your bibliography.

Toynbee's basic idea that the historical unit under investigation is 
a 'civilization' rather than a 'state' is sound. It is anachronistic 
to assume that we are dealing with an amphictony of loosely allied 
city-states when we are talking about the Roman Republic forged out 
of a triumvirate by Augustus. However, I welcome more direct 
criticism of this idea.

Regards,

John Brand
B.A. (Providence College, 1980)
M.Min. (Providence Seminary, 1990)