| 114 | Talcott Parsons (a controversial sociologist) saw Judaism and Greek society as both contributing to modern society. How? |
| 114 | Parsons argued that the whole of Israelite society was affected to some extent by its belief that it had a contract or agreement with its God. But he also held that the Greeks had a unique contribution to the world in the realm of ideas. | Talcott Parsons, Societies, Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1966), Ch 6. |