This was Lewis’ last book, a printing of his lectures on Medieval and Renaissance Literature. It is a fascinating account (the “Discarded Image”) of the Medieval world view of theology and belief. Their view of the world was “a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe.” From the Unmoved Mover, to the Four Temperments […]
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The Fourth Turning
This is not a Christian book (it is published by Broadway, 1997) but neither is it a non-Christian book. The authors trace 500 years of Western history in generations of 80-90 years. Within each generation there are four “turnings.” It is their proposition that our history has run in repeated and predictable cycles both by […]
Character Counts
I have enjoyed the books I have read by Os Guinness. In this one, he is merely the editor and introduces four biographers who write on George Washington, William Wilberforce, Abraham Lincoln and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The four biographies are divided among about 150 pages. I enjoyed the book for two reasons: You get a quick […]
The Real Issue of the Dimpled Ballots
The real issue of the election was not how to count the Florida votes. That game had been played many times before in major cities where the outcome of close elections had to be secured. No, the real issue was played out in the Supreme Court of Florida and of the United States. It is […]
We Are Also History Revisionists!
St. Amant: “The historian can never allow the message of history to create historical facts. Nor can he ignore or distort those facts in the interest of his own bias.”1 Antiphon: “Be not so unjust; rather leave something for that other witness, Time, who aids the zealous seekers of eternal truth.”2 One of the primary […]
Telling The Old, Old Story
Christian literature, to be accepted and approved by the evangelical leaders of our times, must follow very closely . . . a kind of ‘party line’ from which it is scarcely safe to depart. A half-century of this in America has made us smug and content. We imitate each other with slavish devotion and our […]