One of the more complex figures of history is the Christian reformer Martin Luther. His reform ushered a religious revolution in Europe, not only as the end of the religious domination of the Catholic Church in the precedent it gave to the entire Protestant Reformation, but also in philosophy, especially German and northern European thought [...]

A key distinction between Eastern and Western thought is how nature is viewed. In the West, the inheritance of both the biblical sense of domination and the Greek sense of separation have yielded centuries of exploitation and alienation, culminating in the destructiveness of nature and principles of simplicity witnessed today.
The distinction was succinctly drawn by [...]