“I am sick of recalling the many acts of revolting injustice which have disturbed the city’s history; the powerful classes did their best to subjugate the lower orders, and the lower orders resisted – the leaders of each side motivated more by ambition for victory than by any ideas of equity and morality.” Augustine, The […]
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“What it says of Scripture is, not that it is ‘breathed into by God’ or is the product of the Divine ‘inbreathing’ into its human authors, but that it is breathed out by God, ‘God-breathed,’ the product of the creative breath of God. In a word, what is declared by this fundamental passage is simply
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“The question is not, whether the doctrine of plenary inspiration has difficulties to face. The question is, whether these difficulties are greater than the difficulty of believing that the whole church of God from the beginning has been deceived in her estimate of the Scriptures committed to her charge — are greater than the difficulty
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“We need once more to catch the martyr-spirit, a belief in the absoluteness of the Christian faith translated into facts which shall make the Church ‘a peculiar people,’ whose strength does not lie in any blending of light and darkness, but in her renunciation of and aloofness from ‘the world.’” Herbert Workman, Persecution in the
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“”Purposeless renunciation, the renunciation of the dervish or fakir, can never appeal to the Western world. But the renunciation of the martyrs was neither purposeless nor self-centered. As their name shows, they were ‘witnesses’; as the needle turns to the Pole, so they must point, not to themselves, but to another.” Herbert Workman, Persecution in
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