“Consequently, many Christians involved in modern Christian education need to adopt a more comprehensive vision for education. A Christian education is not a process that dabbles around the edges or tires to improve something in need of radical reformation through a simple rearrangement. We may have seen a stsudent who has a basic problem — …
A Significant Omission
“It is not much of an exaggeration to say that music, as an issue of political consequence, vanishes in the political philosophy of early modernity. The intellectual architects of modern liberalism do not acknowledge the public significance of music’s power over the soul” [Carson Holloway, All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics (Dallas: Spence Publishing, …
Theological Rabies
“So that, that sweet and moderate Melancthon, usually called the differences of divines rabies Theologorum, and at his death blessed himself, that among other sins and miseries he was to be free from this rabies or fury of divines . . .” (Durham, p. 243).
Making the Necessary Qualifications
One of the things that became obvious throughout this review of Waters’ book on the Federal Vision was the extraordinarily sloppy job done by Waters in representing my views fairly or accurately. Unfortunately, this pattern continues in the footnotes and bibliography. An astonishing ommission in the bibliography is the doctrinal examination I took before my …
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30. Violence and the Sacred/Girard/really good 31. Saving the Queen/Buckley/fun read
Nothing Is A Mere Metaphor
We are called to feed with Jesus Christ at His Table. He is the host; He is seated at the head of the Table because He is the head of the Church. But He is not seated there with His enemies, but rather with His bride, the Church, and He is one with His bride. …
A Little Christmas Exhortation for August
We celebrate the nativity of the Lord suitably when we remember that He came to rule the kings of the earth. We shall consider shortly what the great Caesars think of this, but the exhortation here is that we must remember His lordship over every petty tribal chieftain, particularly those in our hearts that resist …
Five Yards of Charm
“For example, some readers might be wondering if a worldview can have a number assigned to it. Isn’t this a bit like saying a student has ten pounds of poetic ability or five yards of charm?” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 101).
Turn It Up
“The later critics of modernity, Rousseau and Nietzsche, accepting the priority of passion but also seeing a need to reinvigorate it, resurrect the power of music, aiming to use it to inflame the passions and silence reason in the service of a new, more noble politics” [Carson Holloway, All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics …
Vain Janglings
“I say, rightly ordered and managed, for often the pretext of Christian fellowship is abused to the hatching and propagating of the most absurd opinions, when people turn light and frothy, taking up their time with vain janglings, and diverting from the main scope, to wit, edification” (Durham, p. 215).