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The cross of Christ divides history into two parts — the preparation for and the accomplishment of reconciliation;
In short, doctrinally, Puritanism was a kind of vigorous Calvinism; experientially, it was warm and contagious; evangelistically, it was aggressive, yet tender; ecclesiastically, it was theocentric and worshipful; and politically, it aimed to be scriptural and balanced.
A world, and a church, which is hooked on novelty like some cultural equivalent of crack cocaine needs the cold, cynical eye of the historian to stand as a prophetic witness against it.
It had been nearly a full century since the Viking plague had begun with the first tragic raid on the holy island of Lindisfarne. After that disaster, Alcuin had written to the British church urging them to consider this raid as a scourge from God, sent to awaken the Anglo-Saxons from spiritual lethargy. Now, nearly one hundred years later, the king of Wessex finally took this warning to heart and set about reviving Christian learning and worship throughout his land.The Life of Alfred the Great, 181
The fact that today's evangelicals are so largely out of touch with their own history, and so cannot discern how small and dry and lightweight and superficial and childish they are compared with those from whom they take their name, is one of the more glaring of our current shortcomings, all the more so for going constantly unnoticed.
It is very foolish to ignore the past. The man who does ignore it, and assumes that our problems are quite new, and that therefore the past has nothing at all to teach us, is a man who is not only grossly ignorant of the Scriptures, he is equally ignorant of some of the greatest lessons even in secular history.
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The Christian must understand what confronts him antagonistically in his own moment of history. Otherwise he simply becomes a useless museum piece and not a living warrior for Jesus Christ.
Adult-sized petulant children are a menace to society and indicative of its collapse. History should matter to us because history matures us.Mission of God, 111
"Muslim" or "Arab" medicine was in fact Nestorian Christian medicine; even the leading Muslim and Arab physicians were trained at the enormous Nestorian medical centre at Nisibus in Syria.
The myth of Christianity bringing about the "Dark Ages" in Europe... propagated successfully by French philosophes has long since been debunked as spurious, the fifteenth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1981 dismissing the label as completely unacceptable historically. In fact the early centuries of the Christian era in the West were, as Rodney Start points out, "one of the greatest innovative eras of mankind, as technology was developed and put into use on a scale no civilization had previously known."The Mission of God, 124
It is simply not possible to account for the liberty created by Western civilization without recognizing the specifically Christian and biblical faith that formed its actuating principle.The Mission of God, 121
The recovering of old truth, truth that has been a means of blessing in the past, can under God become the means of blessing again in the present, while the quest for newer alternatives may well prove barren.
Packer, J. I.. Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God (Kindle Locations 97-98). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God (Kindle Locations 97-98). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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