Book Review: Mark Noll's America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911
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“Mark Noll surveys the effects of an ‘independence-first’ approach to Scripture.” - CToday
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“Mark Noll surveys the effects of an ‘independence-first’ approach to Scripture.” - CToday
1970s… “As the phrase grew in the public consciousness, many Americans assumed that born-again Christianity was a new Christian sect.” - Desiring God
“Hummel…takes the reader back to Plymouth, a midsize port city on England’s southern coast that birthed the nonconformist sect known as the Plymouth Brethren. And he takes the reader to Ireland, where we encounter a radical Irish Anglican curate named John Nelson Darby” - First Things
I recently posted to an internet discussion group the claim that none of the KJV’s contemporaries or those for many generations afterward had the temerity to affirm that the KJV was a perfect, flawless, unimprovable English Bible version as is claimed by some today. To the contrary, from the beginning, it was recognized as being flawed in numerous details, and certainly was susceptible to correction and improvement to bring it into closer conformity to the Bible text in the original Hebrew and Greek.
“Far from making Christianity the state religion, the Edict of Milan legalized all religions, not just Christianity. It is also claimed that Constantine determined the canon of Scripture and key Christian doctrine when he oversaw the Council of Nicaea. Both charges are nonsense.” - Breakpoint
“On April 3, 1960, Episcopal priest Dennis Bennett announced to his congregation in Van Nuys, California, that he had been baptized with the Spirit and spoken in tongues, inaugurating the ‘second wave’ of the charismatic movement.” - By Faith
“The original version read, ‘We believe in the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from the Father,’ a statement taken directly from John 15:26…. In this article, we’ll guide you through the history and theology of the Filioque clause.” - Word by Word
“While the reasons for the above breaks in fellowship vary, what is common among them is a mutual love and respect for the other, even after the separation occurs. Let this instruct us as Christians today who are often trigger happy to assign blame, take sides, and form coalitions against one another.” - P&D
Natural theology “was not a novelty introduced at the time of the Enlightenment and it did not lead to or cause the Enlightenment.” - Credo
Miles Smith, one of the principal translators and editors of the King James Version, writing in the name of all the translators, penned “The Translators to the Readers,” an eleven-page preface or introduction to the original edition of the KJV, which, sadly, has been omitted from most KJV editions for the past 350 years. Therein, on unnumbered page 9, he wrote [I normalize spelling]—
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