Holy Spirit and Religious Experience in Christian Literature, c.AD 90-200 (Studies in Christian History and Thought) (Studies in Christian History and Thought)
a Christian artist (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Today, academics are trying to revise history alleging that Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia as America’s first secular school. They won’ t tell you that Thomas Jefferson did ensure that University of Virginia students would be taught religious instruction and morals. And it was non-preferentialism in one particular Christian denomination, that was actually...
Middlebrow (Free subscription) | yesterday
... a brave religious man for his opinions. The titular leader of the world’s millions of Orthodox Christians cannot build a seminary in Turkey. Christians cannot build adequate churches in that European nation, a situation that is not about to change. Surely centuries of brutal second-class citizenship for Turkish Christians are as serious as the wrong-headed...
Some landscapes (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... such as these. And is it not true that since Buonarotti and Raphael there have been no genuine history painters? Even Raphael's picture in the gallery tends toward landscape - of course we must understand something totally different by the term landscape'. Raphael, The Sistine Madonna , 1512-13 This quotation is in Joseph Leo Koerner's Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape...
The Godspot (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
I find being both calvinistic and charismatic pretty difficult. The main reason for this is that the two have only just started to really come together, in the modern day. In modern Christian history, a charismatic approach to life, worship, praise and practice, has classically been hand in hand with an arminian theology of freedom and sovereignty of the human will and conditional security....
