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necessary wedding of doctrine and practice destroys superficial Christianity,
“our dear old bag of a democracy” is sustained, not by itself, but by belief in something deeper and greater than itself.”
― The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
― The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
“Henry Wallace: “The idea of freedom . . . is derived from the Bible with its extraordinary emphasis on the dignity of the individual. Democracy is the only true political expression of Christianity.”39 And Christianity is the only genuine source and sustainer of democracy”
― The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
― The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
“In addition, local authorities were ordered to seize each Christian man, to pluck out his beard and to tattoo a black mark on his shoulder. When few Christians defected in response to these measures, the Khān then ordered that all Christian men be castrated and have one eye put out—which caused many deaths in this era before antibiotics, but did lead to many conversions.37”
― The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion
― The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion
“What Herod realizes is that this Child and the message he brings of universal forgiveness and reconciliation with God do not offer a rival source of power and order but a radical alternative to what the classical world understands as “power” and “order.” They do not seek to replace him on the throne of his kingdom but to usher in a wholly new Kingdom, not providing “spiritual benzedrine for the earthly city” but replacing that city with a new one: the City of Man passes away, the City of God abides forever.”
― The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
― The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
“I have suggested that the cultural health of Europe, including the cultural health of its component parts, is incompatible with extreme forms of both nationalism and internationalism. But the cause of that disease, which destroys the very soil in which culture has its roots, is not so much extreme ideas, and the fanaticism which they stimulate, as the relentless pressure of modern industrialism, setting the problems which the extreme ideas attempt to solve. Not least of the effects of industrialism is that we become mechanized in mind, and consequently attempt to provide solutions in terms of engineering, for problems which are essentially problems of life.35”
― The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
― The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
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