Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

History as Foil to the Present

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"We need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

A Staggering Statement about George Whitefield's Influence

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I have not read much written by George Marsden. But what I have read seems to indicate, to me at least, that he tends to be understated and ...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Machen Faces Modernism in Faith

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From  Taylor's 10 Key Events  on fundamentalism and evangelicalism in modern America, this is key event number 6: Machen Defends the...
Saturday, February 8, 2014

The Fascination and Difficulty of History

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"The reason history is fascinating is because people in other times and places are so like us. The reason history is difficult is becau...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The Decline of Heroes and Our Identity Crisis

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David Wells has said that "the decline of heroes and heroines who embody noble virtues and their replacement by celebrities, not to men...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Character: An Intense Conscious Sense of Living Morally Before God

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In his book  Losing Our Virtue , in the course of discussing the disastrous move from virtues to values in the modern era, David Wells gives...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

Then and Now

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I'm toying with the idea here of regular posts of a then-versus-now variety. I'm not doing this because of the belief that the past...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Chronological Snobbery

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C. S. Lewis defines what he calls "chronological snobbery" as "the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common t...