Abstract
THESIS: Almost all academic communities presuppose that the Greeks and the Romans have an exclusive monopoly on the intellectual-cultural life of the university. In the midst of most academic communities, there is usually also a Christian community of faculty and students which needs to be creatively disturbed by this presupposition. The Christian community is the heir in a peculiar way of Hebraic culture, and it needs to remind the university of its whole obligation as the transmitter of what is of lasting value in our cultural heritage. This transmitting function of the university cannot be fulfilled if the Hebraic roots of Western thought are either overlooked or undervalued.
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