Editor’s note: This article first appeared in The Big Picture (TBP), a publication of the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology (KLC). As long as a Gnostic impulse continues to course through the veins of so much modern, Western Christianity we will not recognize the importance of a voice like that of Wendell Berry. Gnosticism …
Gregory the Great is widely acknowledged as one of the worthiest Popes. A Doctor[1] of the Catholic Church, he is remembered both for his theological understanding and his concern for Christian holiness. In his sermons on the gospels, he warns Christian leaders not to allow greed to motivate their ministry. He sets out the consequences clearly because …
Judgment on the Ministers of God—Gregory the Great (c. 540 – 604) Read More »
Editor’s note: This post first appeared in Ad Fontes, a publication of the Davenant Institute. One of the big criticisms of the Reformation is that it unintentionally led to the “disenchantment” of the natural world in modernity. For our medieval forebears, the created world was positively fizzing with the presence of the divine–whether of God …
Undoing Misenchantment: Calvin, Demons, and Creation Read More »
“But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ.” These …
1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the wages of …
How to Avoid the Coming Judgment for Those Who Oppress the Poor Read More »
Allen Guelzo, in his work Reconstruction: A Concise History, helpfully summarizes one of the most important and neglected periods in American history: the movement to reconstruct a nation divided by the Civil War. Guelzo is a Civil War historian at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, and his book goes a long way to explaining why a …