The ability of a plant to live depends on the root from which it springs. He who would guarantee our liberty to us should know where it originated and be able to tell whence it came.
In keeping with an ancient custom, it will be a rule at our University that the exchange of the rectorate shall be accompanied by an oration; and it is preferred that each rector shall take a theme from his own department.
The question of how human beings are to live together in the proper use of the goods the Creator placed in this world, has always been and is today one of greatest importance.
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.