Baptism is not complete without its complement, the holy supper. When an infant is born into the world, the nurse who is in attendance washes it, because it is born unclean. It needs bathing, but that is not all it needs. It also needs food.
It was not from Greece or Rome that the regeneration of human life came forth;—that mighty metamorphosis dates from Bethlehem and Golgotha.
In two extensive volumes Spengler expounded the well-known thesis that the law of birth, maturity, and death applies not only to plants and animals but holds equally for civilizations.
The following pages contain an edited version of lectures presented by Dr. B. Goudzwaard at an economics and politics seminar sponsored by the Institute for Christian Studies in the summer of 1972.
If you were to survey all of the titles in the “Self-Help” genre, you could probably begin to see how the world’s “wisdom” has been shared from culture to culture, language to language, epoch to epoch, and has converged into this one genre like a sticky mess of a hodgepodge.
The sun is reaching its solar maximum, people are worried about an “internet-apocalypse”, and since the pandemic we are again witnessing mass hysteria. In what, or who, do we place our trust?
We have rejected divine revelation as the basis of truths not only about God but about human nature, and in turn ignored it as the source of human understanding and human flourishing.
The responsibility of the Christian intellectual is to integrate faith and knowledge. The data, insights, facts and discoveries must not be dealt with as though they belonged to a world other than that in which faith exists.
It has been three years since we started the Cántaro Institute, and four years since Daniel Lobo and Julian Castaño sat with me overlooking the Costa Rican tropics and discussed the need for a reformation and renewal of the Western church and culture.
In “The Abolition of Man”, C.S. Lewis demonstrated how the public education of his day fundamentally contradicted the common aims and pedagogy and moral framework of education hitherto maintained throughout human history.