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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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Entries in Education (8)

Friday
Sep272013

Volume 17, No. 2

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Education and the Great Commission

Features:

  • Towards a Biblical Philosophy of Science, by Mark Kreitzer
  • Persecution of Christians in Pakistan—More case Studies from CLAAS
  • The Judeo-Christian Cosmology and the Origins of Science, by Paul Gosselin
  • The Impulse of Power: Formative Ideals of Western Civilisation—Cont., by Michael W. Kelley
  • Trinity and Daily Living, by Derek Carlsen
  • The Degeneration of Liberalism, by Robin Phillips

Book reviews

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Friday
Sep272013

Volume 17, No. 1

CONTENTS:

Editorial

Features:

  • The Emerging Right to Resist: Theodore Beza's Contribution to Huguenot Political Philosophy, by Briaj Douglas
  • Jonathan Edwards and the Holy Commonwealth, by Bruce Dayman
  • The Great Decommission, by Stephen C. Perks
  • The Impulse of Power: Formative Ideals of Western Civilisation, by Micahel W. Kelley
  • The Antithesis, by Stephen C. Perks
  • Schleiermacher and Romanticism: Ignored Antecedent of Postmodernism? by S. Alan Corlew
  • Nature and the Supernatural, by Michael W. Kelley

Book reviews

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Monday
Apr232012

Volume 13, No. 1

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Challenging Goliath, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • The Presuppositions of a Christian Scientific Enterprise, by Colin Wright
  • The Church as a Community of Faith, by Stephen Perks
  • England's Silent Revolution: A Review of Herbert Schlossberg's The Silent Revolution and the Making of Victorian England, by David Estrada
  • Envy and Covetousness, by Derek Carlsen

Book reviews

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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

Book reviews, Letters to the Editor

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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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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

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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

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