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““The disadvantage of men not knowing The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.” in which they are living.”
- G.K. Chesterton - G.K. Chesterton
The Great Omission
Monasticism, Benedict’s RuleThe honoring of workCleared wastelandBold missions – Boniface and the
Oak of Thor ScholarshipScholarship
Teachers [both academic and practical]
The Eastern church instructs IslamCathedral schools 800s become… Universities - Universities - Bologna 1087Clocks and eyeglasses by 1300s
LinguisticsTranslation of Bible [example:
Cyrillic]Preserved ancient manuscripts
Medieval church ends Medieval church ends slavery by the 1000sslavery by the 1000s
Charity & MoralityCharity & MoralityHospitals, care for
orphans and poorHoly days!Peace of God –
restraints on warFormalizing
marriage…A culture of monogamy
Civilizing Europe
Augustine “Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? ”
Civilizing the warriors – manners, chivalry, restraint of nobles in protection of peasantry
1100s - Canon law [evidence, court hearings] replaces Germanic trial by ordeal, juries in England [c.1150]
Henry deBracton [c.1250] argues from Scripture that the purpose of law is justice – and thus law is binding on the king
Magna Charta [1215] authored by a churchman
The Great Omission
This Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People.
John Wycliffe, General Prologue to the Bible translation of 1384
Elected pastors and councils {Zwingli and Calvin]
Luther and Anabaptists – liberty of conscience Calvin’s Geneva – Covenant democracy
Theodore Beza Right of Magistrates 1573 – “magistrates” serve people not kings
Andrew Melville, Scottish professor to James VI of Scotland: "Sirrah, ye are God's silly vassal; there are two kings and two kingdoms in Scotland: there is king James, the head of the commonwealth; and there is Christ Jesus, the king of the Church, whose subject James the Sixth is, and of whose kingdom he is not a king, not a lord, not a head, but a member.“
I’m just a wee bit miffed
King James
My conscience is captive to God…Here I
stand
My conscience is captive to God…Here I
stand
French RevolutionRussian RevolutionChinese RevolutionFascist ‘New World Order’
Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge
Britain's “Clapham Sect” Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885), campaigned
against abusive child labor practices Sir Michael Sadler summons dozens of witnesses –
children from coal mines, child prostitutes, abused female factory workers, and crippled laborers – to testify before Parliament.
Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel fights corrupt city government, first professional police, public health and housing laws.
Evangelical protesters publicly named and shamed abusive employers in British papers.
Abolition led by evangelicals, especially Methodists, Quakers and dissenters - late 1600s to 1800s
2d Great Awakening [1799-1830s] accelerates abolition in America William Wilberforce (1759-1833), against slavery
until abolition in the British Empire in 1833 …and 230 other societies for the reformation of
morals]
Robert Raikes [d. 1811] Sunday Schools and Ragged Schools
England - 600 voluntary charities late 19th century Churches helped millions of workers join voluntary
self help societies (four times as many as unions), Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), George
Muller’s famous orphanage , London City Mission, founded in 1835 by Scotsman David Naismith.
Salvation Army founded by William and Catherine Booth: W. Booth pioneered the use of social statistics (sociology). 1882 - survey of London on one weeknight -
17,000 worshipping with Salvation Army; 11,000 in ordinary churches.
Elizabeth Fry (UK) and Dorthea Dix (USA) reform of jails, workhouses, and insane asylums.
Opposition to Nazis The Archbishop of Bulgaria,
Metropolitan Kirill (Cyril) French mountain village Le
Chambon-sur-Lignon …a 'conspiracy of goodness‘… an entire town sheltered 5,000 Jews. ..led by Reformed pastor Andre Trocme
The Valkyrie plot against Hitler carried out by Prussian officers who cited their faith
The Romanian Revolution [1989] begins with attacks on Reformed Pastor Laszlo Tokes
Language: Most languages now in writing thanks to Bible translators
And new campaigns against slavery[30 million] …
“Now a confirmed atheist, I’ve become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs, government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not do. Education and training alone will not do…In Africa, Christianity changes people’s hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real. The change is good.” Matthew Parris, former British MP, atheist [Times of
London, Dec 2008]I Peter 2:15 “For it is God's will that by doing good
you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.”
“The church is an anvil which has broken many
hammers.”English proverb
Francis Schaeffer How Then Should We Live? Dinesh D’souza What’s So Great About
Christianity Vishal Mangalwadi The Book that Made Your
World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization
Rodney Stark The Triumph of Reason, The Triumph of Christianity
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