As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“Something is indeed wrong in the West, yet it’s not clear that Franklin fully appreciates what it would mean to restore the civilization of the High Middle Ages.” - TGC
“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
During the past three years, I have slowly made my journey through the canon of western literature.1 Starting with Homer’s Iliad, I progressed through the ancient Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman authors and am now in the Middle Ages at the Qur’an. The Qur’an is one of the important and influential religious texts in western literature and the sacred scripture of Islam.
“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
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We visited Eisenach and the Wartburg Castle on the Sunday of our 500th anniversary Reformation trip.
The day was gloriously dark and dreary. Fortunately, we felt only a few raindrops. But it was an absolutely perfect day for a ride through the Thuringian Forest.
“…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
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