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The logic of an idea, once it has gained a foothold in the human psyche, has a tendency to work itself out with a relentless consistency to its ultimate con-clusions even among men of disparate cultures who have little or no contact with or knowledge of each other, but more especially so where that idea is widely accepted by a community—unless it is effectively challen-ged. And so it has been with sacerdotalism and prelacy, which even the Reformation was not able to expunge entirely from the minds of Christian men, and so the wretched harvest produced by these ideas began to grow once more before the dust thrown up by the ploughing of the Reformation had settled on the ground. And this is all the more remarkable because, as Max Weber pointed out, “every consistent doctrine of predestined grace inevitably implied a radical and ultimate devaluation of all magical, sacramental and institutional distributions of grace, in view of God’s sovereign will.”

— Stephen Perks,
The Christian Passover:
Agape Feast or Ritual Abuse?, p. 46
The Officials of the Roman Empire in time of persecution sought to force the Christians to sacrifice, not to any of the heathen gods, but to the Genius of the Emperor and the Fortune of the city of Rome; and at all times the Christians' refusal was looked upon not as a religious but as a political offence.

— Frances Legge,
Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity,
Vol, I, p. lvi.
The history of Eastern Christianity under the rule of Islam has already been written. The story is a depressing one. The history of Western Christianity under the rule of Islam has yet to be written. Whether it will ever be written may well depend on how seriously the Church in the West takes the Great Commission in the next few decades and on whether the zeal and self-sacrifice of Muslims for their jihad can be matched by the zeal and self-sacrifice of Christians for the Great Commission - indeed, whether Muslims, with their zeal and self-sacrifice, can be converted from jihad to the Great Commission.

— Stephen Perks,
"From Jihad to Great Commission"
in Christianity & Society, Vol. VIX, No. 3
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Volume 15, No. 1

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • A Few Words of Appreciation/Funding the Kuyper Foundation

Features:

  • Early Eastern Christianity and its Contribution to Science, by Frances Luttikhuizen
  • A World Propagandised, by Michael W. Kelley
  • Immanent Danger, by A. B. Dayman
  • Law and Apostasy in Islam, by Christine Schirrmacher
  • The Dew on the Grass, by Nick Holloway
  • What has Jerusalem (or Ramallah) got to do with Geneva?, by Esmond Birnie
  • The Scottish School of Common Sense Philosophy, by David Estrada
  • Christian Worldview and Changing Cultures (Part I), by Patrick Poole
  • Stretching our Words for Worship, by Doug Baker
  • Paul and His Associates, by Thomas Schirrmacher

Book reviews and Notices

Letters to the Editor

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