Middle Ages

“Disgusted by the hypocrisies and outright lunacy of political candidates in this election year, and the abuse uncovered among the so-called godly? Welcome to the Middle Ages. What’s old is new again.” - Marvin Olasky

“Traditional narratives cast this period as a dark age of backwardness and barbarism, before the ‘rebirth’ of classical tradition during the European Renaissance. But the evidence suggests otherwise.” - Smithsonian

“One of the more common mischaracterizations is that Thomas Aquinas is a pure rationalist who subverts the Scriptures at the expense of his philosophical musings. Contrary to this narrative, Aquinas was a man who was steeped in the Scriptures. For Thomas, the love of God is more important than the knowledge of God, even though both are absolutes.” - Credo

“…the questions of politics must focus on how much liberty a society can tolerate before it starts to break down. This is a very old debate, of course. But it’s not a conversation that many critics of ‘liberalism’ seem very interested in having.” - John Ehrett

“Some church history and tradition have been forgotten or neglected by many modern Christians…in part, for lack of knowledge of their importance.” Gavin Ortlund, pastor of First Baptist Church of Ojai, California, talks about recovering lost doctrine and practice and his new book Theological Retrieval for Evangelicals. - Ref21

Historian: Shroud of Turin is actually a medieval Easter prop