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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

Christianity and Society

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Monday
Apr162012

Volume 12, No. 2

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Western Hypocrisy and the Islamic Scourge, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • Islamic Objectives Worldwide, by F. W. Schnitzler
  • Perpectual Revolution, by Derek carlsen
  • Atoms of Delight, by Alan Wilson
  • The Role of the Family in Christianity, by Jean-Marc Berthoud
  • The Preaching of the Moral Law, by Paul Wells
  • John Buchan's Novels—Real Men, by Sterphen Hayhow

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Wednesday
Mar282012

Volume 11, No. 4

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Political Duplicity, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • Self-Made Religion, by Derek Carlsen
  • God, Man and the World: Reflections on Ecology, by Bertrand Rickenbacher
  • Baal Worship Ancient and Modern, by Stephen Perks

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Thursday
Mar222012

Volume 11, No. 3

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Up Yours! The New Approach the Sex Education in Scotland, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • Calvinistic Activism: Its Rise and Transformation, by Michael W. Kelley
  • When Authority is Abused, by Peter Moore
  • Observations on the Historico-Critical Method, by Bertrand Rickenbacher
  • Karl Popper's Scientific Enterprise (Part 3—concluded), by Colin Wright
  • Another Defeat for the Common Law by Riben Alvarado

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Wednesday
Mar212012

Volume 11, No. 2

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • R. J. Rushdoony, 1916–2001, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • Interpreting the Bible's Secular Writings, by John Peck and Charlkes Strohmer
  • Alpha and the Omegas? Part V (concluded), by Peter Burden-Teh
  • Karl Popper's Scientific Enterprise (Part 2), by Colin Wright
  • Evangelicals What? by Paul Wells

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Tuesday
Mar202012

Volume 11, No. 1

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Cleaning up Humanism, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • Alpha and the Omegas? Part IV, by Peter Burden-Teh
  • The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification by the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church, by David Estrada
  • The Critical Historical Method: Will Things Ever be the Same Again?  by Paul Wells
  • Karl Popper's Scientific Enterprise (Part 1), by Colin Wright

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Friday
Mar162012

Volume 10, No. 4

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Preach the Gospel and Heal the Sick, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • Alpha and the Omegas? Part III, by Peter Burden-Teh
  • An Outline of the Common Law, by Ruben Alvarado
  • Prison—After Saving Their Boy's Life,  by Jphn Smeaton
  • Lex Aeterna: St Augustine's Cosmonomic Idea (Part 2), by Colin Wright

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Thursday
Mar082012

Volume 10, No. 3

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Socialism as Idolatry, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • Alpha and the Omegas? Part II, by Peter Burden-Teh
  • Lex Aeterna: St Augustine's Cosmonomic Idea (Part 1), by Colin Wright
  • Time of the Signs: Apostmodern Apocalypse,  by Crawford Gribben and Simon Wheeler
  • Any Questions? What is Spirituality?, by Stephen Perks

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Tuesday
Sep132011

Volume 10, No. 2

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • The Social Consequences of Apostasy, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • The Eurodelimma, by John Peck
  • Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice Vindicated? Part 2, by Thomans Schirrmacher
  • Alpha and the Omegas? Part 1,  by Peter Burden-Teh
  • The Christian Passover: Agape Feast or Ritual Abuse?, by Stephen Perks
  • God and Gender, by Paul Wells
  • The Witch Craze—Positively Mediaeval, by Nick Needham

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Tuesday
Sep132011

Volume 10, No. 1

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • The Church Effeminate, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • Gisbertus Voetius:Towards A Reformed Marriage of Knowledge and Piety, by Joel Beeke
  • Cannibalism and Human Scarifice Vindicated? Part 1, by Thomans Schirrmacher
  • Spare Part Syrgery: Right or Wring? by Colin Wright
  • Christians in a NewMillennium: The Eleventh Century Revisited, by Nick Needham

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Thursday
Jul212011

Volume 9, No. 4

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Christianity as a Cult, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • The Fool Bartimaeus, A Poem by Matthew J. Wright
  • Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575), by R. L. Petersen
  • Aquinas's Theory of Natural Law, by Colin Wright
  • Christian Suspicion of the Arts, by David Estrada

Book reviews, Letters to the Editor

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Thursday
Jul212011

VOLUME 9, NO. 3

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Is There an Afterlife? The Intermediate State Reconsidered, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • John Milton's Anatomy of Parliament (Part 2), by Colin Wright
  • How I Became a Creationist, by A. J. Monty White
  • Any Questions: Dooyeweerd Made Easy, by Colin Wright
  • Religion of Works in Architecture, by Alan Wilson

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Thursday
Jul212011

VOLUME 9, NO. 2

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • The Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • Shoogly Bridge: A Response to Bridge Building by Alister McGrath, by Martin Foulner
  • Hamartiology versus Illness in Substance Addiction Behaviour, by Tommy Rogers
  • John Milton's Anatomy of Parliament (Part 1), by Colin Wright
  • Humanism: Trust in Man—Ruin of the Nations, by Jean-Marc Berthoud

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Thursday
Jul212011

VOLUME 9, NO. 1

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Covenant Signs and Sacraments, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • John Amos Commenius and the Origins of Progressive Education (Part 3), by John-Marc Berthoud
  • Humanism Vanquished by the Law of God (Part 4), by Pierre Courthial
  • Quid Roma? The Case of Eugen Drewermann, by A. R. Kayayan
  • Dooyeweerd Made Easy (Well . . .easier!), by Colin Wright

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Friday
Jul152011

Volume 8, No. 4

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Euphemisms for Murder, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • John Amos Commenius and the Origins of Progressive Education (Part 2), by John-Marc Berthoud
  • Humanism Vanquished by the Law of God (Part 3), by Pierre Courthial
  • Goat Hunting with Samuel Rutherford, by Martin Foulner
  • Common Grace: An Introduction, by Abraham Kuyper
  • Confessions of a Disenchanted Preacher, by Nick Needham

Book reviews, Letters to the Editor

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Friday
Jul152011

Volume 8, No. 3

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Spiritual Depression, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • John Amos Commenius and the Origins of Progressive Education, by John-Marc Berthoud
  • Humanism Vanquished by the Law of God (Part 2), by Pierre Courthial
  • How to Read Books, by Colin Wright
  • Cannibalism, by Thomas Schirrmacher

The Filioque Debate

  • A response to Colin Wright and Stephen Hayhow, by Nick Needham
  • Censorship, by Stephen Perks

Book reviews

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Friday
Jul152011

Volume 8, No. 2

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • The Legacy of Abraham Kuyper, by Colin Wright

Features:

  • Humanism Vanquished by the Law of God (Part I), by Pierre Courthial
  • Signs of the End of the Age, Matthew 24, by Michael Kelley
  • On the Authority of the Bible, by John Peck

The Filioque Debate

  • In Defence of Augustine: A Reply to Some Misconceptions, by Colin Wright
  • In Defence of the Filioque, by Stephen J. Hayhow
  • The Spirit of the Age, by Stephen J. Hayhow

Book reviews, Letters to the Editor

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Friday
Jul152011

Volume 8, No. 1

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Clergymen, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • Bribery and Corruption, Thomas Schirrmahcer
  • Ugliness in the Theatre of the Absurd (Part II), by David Estrada
  • The Foundations of a Christian Theory of Human Action, by Colin Wright
  • The Filioque Clause: East or West?, by Nick Needham
  • "Independent" and "Presbyterian" as Political Terms, by Robert S. Paul

Book reviews

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Friday
Jul012011

Volume 7, No. 4

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Idols for Destruction, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • St Augustine: His Life and Thought (Part VIII), Colin Wright
  • Ugliness in the Theatre of the Absurd (Part I), by David Estrada
  • The Origin of Genesis, by Thomas Schirrmacher
  • Messianic Statism: A Political Terror, by Alan Wilson
  • St Anselm: Proving or Presupposing the Existence of God? by Colin Wright

Book reviews

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Friday
Jul012011

Volume 7, No. 3

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Wealth, Poverty and Dependency in Britain, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • The Value of Church History, by Nick Needham
  • St Augustine: His Life and Thought (Part VII), Colin Wright
  • Usury and the Poor Loan, by Stephen Perks
  • The Gospel in Central Asia: A Fordgotten Story, by John Peck

Book reviews, Letters to the Editor and Editorial Notices

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Thursday
Jun302011

Volume 7, No. 2

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Common-Law Wives and Concubines, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • The Different Forms of Causality and the Thought of the Bible (Part 2), by Jean-Marc Berthoud
  • The Underground Movement, by John Peck
  • Is there a Contradiction Between the Two Creation Accounts?, by Thomas Schirrmacher
  • St Augustine: His Life and Thought, by Colin Wright
  • Gospel and Law: A Biblical Study and Exhortation, by Andrew Sandlin

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