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• Christian Hellenism — The Foundation of Western Culture

  
  AOI Observer — Authority: 515
  From the chapter on “Liturgy and Theology and Byzantine Culture” in The Formation of Christendom by Christopher Dawson (Sheed & Ward, 1967):The essential achievement of the patristic age was the synthesis of Eastern religion and Western culture, or, to be more precise, the uniting of the spiritual traditions ...
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• The REAL Santa Claus Was Nicholas, Pastor Of The Church At Myra!

  
  Jesus Christ Is Lord — Authority: 130
  Teach your children the truth, not the lie! After reading this Christian parents, you have absolutely no excuse for lying to your children about the lie, which is an evil combination of pagan mythology and American capitalism (i.e. Coca-Cola and department stores) plus the obvious fact that this world much prefers to ...
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• Why I support the GCR–Tom Ascol

  
  All Things New — Authority: 112
  I am working on a series of posts about why “I’m a Southern Baptist” and I came across this article from Bro. Tom Ascol. I thought I’d let this be kind of a intro into my series. Plus I wanted to put it on here before I forgot about it. “Over the last several months I have repeatedly been asked why I ...
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• The Age of Discovery

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 552
  In the lates 1400s, a new age of learning began in northen Italy. People studied the books of ancient Greece and Rome. Tey wrote poetry and painted wonderful pictures. Europeans thought up many clever new inventions, such as printing presses, pocket watches, thermometers, and telescopes. At the same time, sailors from ...
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• Blaise Pascal – select quotes

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 144
  All the great divertissements are dangerous for the Christian life, but among all those which the world has invented, none is more to fear than the theatre. ~ in Pensees, ch. 24, 60 All of us have been created with a God-shaped vacuum that only God can fill. Happiness is neither within or without us—it is in God ...
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• More Thoughts on BMEV

  
  Biblical Horizons — Authority: 389
  The previous discussion led to several points that I’d like to take up in like to take up in more detail. For the sake of discussion, I’ll number them for ease of consideration.   1. Typological “evidences” for Mary as perpetual virgin, queen of heaven, etc. etc. I assert here that these have never been the ...
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• “Now Thank We All Our God”: the story behind the hymn

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 547
  I think of Martin Rinkart every thanksgiving; his gift of this hymn is simply stunning given the circumstances in which it was written. Read it all--KSH .
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• How to Study Theology - Martin Luther

  
  Emeth Aletheia — Authority: 136
  How to Study Theology - Martin LutherThis is the way taught by holy King David (and doubtlessly used also by all the patriarchs and prophets) in Psalm 119. There you will find three rules, amply presented throughout the whole psalm: prayer (oratio), meditation (meditatio), and testing (tentatio).If, however, you feel ...
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• Featured: PATRON SAINTS FOR POSTMODERNS by Chris Armstrong [Vol. 2, #46]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 134
  “Stories to Guide Us” A Review of Patron Saints for Postmoderns: Ten from the Past Who Speak to Our Future. By Chris Armstrong. Reviewed by Austen Sandifer-Williams . Patron Saints for Postmoderns: Ten from the Past Who Speak to Our Future. By Chris ...
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• Brief Review: AUGUSTINE AND THE JEWS by Paula Fredriksen [Vol. 2, #46]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 134
  A Brief Review of Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism . Paula Fredriksen Hardback: Doubleday, 2008. Buy now:  [ ChristianBook.com ] Reviewed by James Spinti. This review originally appeared on James’s blog: http://anebooks.blogspot.com/ It is reprinted here with the ...
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• Brief Review: AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO by Henry Chadwick [Vol. 2, #46]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 134
  A Brief Review of Augustine of Hippo: A Life . Henry Chadwick. Hardback: Oxford UP,  2009. Buy now: [ ChristianBook.com ] Reviewed by Chris Smith. Twenty-eight years after its completion, Oxford University Press has finally brought Henry Chadwick’s introductory biography of Augustine to print.  ...
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• Book Bargains… Especially for ERB readers!!! [Vol. 2, #46]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 134
  In our continuing effort to fund the publication and free distribution of The Englewood Review, we are going to be collaborating more intentionally with Christian Book Distributors. Primarily, we will be offering you the opportunity to buy bargain books from CBD that we think of are interest. Buying books this way ...
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• Reviewed Elsewhere [Vol. 2, #46]

  
  The Englewood Review of Books — Authority: 134
  ERB Editor Chris Smith Reviews Nora Gallagher’s THE SACRED MEAL http://weblog.englewoodcc.com/?p=72 The “Ancient Practices” series from Thomas Nelson – with its deep historical rooting and careful theological attentiveness – is rapidly becoming one of my favorite ongoing series of books. Thus, I was ...
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• Church History in Four Minutes & Quaker Dance Party

  
  zoecarnate — Authority: 521
  It isn’t perfect, but it’s fun: This church produced the video below; the story is told here and here . HT: Liturgy NZ And I discovered video below via Martin Kelley ’s Convergent Friends Ning network (Ning networks are awesome!); Jon Watts is a spoken word artist and multipreneur; his music ...
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• Are you suffering for the real Jesus?

  
  Persecuted Church Weblog — Authority: 134
  You probably didn’t notice, but we recently removed reference to an imprisoned pastor on our websites when we learned that he and the group that he was a part of denied that Jesus is and has always been truly God. Denying the Trinity, they claim that only God the Father is truly and eternally God. Sadly but truly, ...
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• In All Things Give Thanks

  
  The Upward Call — Authority: 501
  Once, again, I am participating in Rebeccas month of thanksgiving, and today, I am thankful for the works of the Reformers, in particular Luther and Calvin.Every Tuesday, I try to write something about what Im learning about in my church history reading, and at the moment, I am reading about the life and theology of ...
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• WHAT IS AN EVANGELICAL ARMINIAN?

  
  Classical Arminianism — Authority: 127
  Calvinist Michael Hortons article, "Evangelical Arminians: Option or Oxymoron?", written in 1992 and still promoted on The White Horse Inn website (as of November 22, 2009), suggests that the words evangelical and Arminian cannot be used in connection with one another. Let us investigate the article as it stands ...
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• Unto the Darkness which is Beyond Light

  
  Blog by-the-Sea — Authority: 126
  " Unto this Darkness which is beyond Light we pray that we may come, and may attain unto vision through the loss of sight and knowledge, and that in ceasing thus to see or to know we may learn to know that which is beyond all perception and understanding (for this emptying of our faculties is true sight and ...
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• St. Gregory Nazianzen: "I went up into the Mount . . . and entered away from matter and material things"

  
  Blog by-the-Sea — Authority: 126
  "What is this that has happened to me, Ofriends, and initiates, and fellow-lovers of the truth? I wasrunning to lay hold on God, and thus I went up into the Mount, and drewaside the curtain of the Cloud, and entered away from matter andmaterial things, and as far as I could I withdrew within myself. And then when I ...
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• An Appreciation of the Family Niebuhr

  
  Levellers — Authority: 415
  UPDATE:  For some reason I felt like reposting this appreciation of the Niebuhrs before writing the next section of my biblical case for Christian pacifism.  I know, I know. A pacifist is not supposed to have good things to say about the ardent opponent of Christian pacifism, Reinhold Niebuhr.  And someone ...
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