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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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Wednesday
Nov142012

Volume 15, No. 2

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • News

Features:

  • The Scottish School of Common Sense Philosophy (Part II), by David Estrada
  • A Interview with Esmond Birnie
  • The Wisdom of Men: An Exposition of 1 Corinthians 1;1 to 2:5, by Stephen Perks
  • Notes on reading Cervantes, by Frances Luttikhuizen
  • The Christian Confronted by Homosexuality, by Jean-Marc Berthoud
  • The Reign of Sentimentality, by Richard Terrell
  • Poetry Stretches our Minds for Worship, by Doug Baker

Book reviews and Notices

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Monday
Nov122012

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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Tuesday
May222012

Volume 14, No. 1

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Socialism Again!, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • Ethics in Art Practice, by Dimitri Tsouris
  • From His Hands, by Susannah Wrigley
  • The European Union and the Future Governance of the United Kingdom, by Bob Graham
  • Kingdom Living, by Derek Carlsen
  • Dancing Partners, by Susannah Wrigley
  • The Life and Vision of Abraham Kuyper, by Joel R. Beeke

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Tuesday
May012012

Volume 13, No. 3

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Illiteracy, by Stephen Perks

Features:

  • Mindless Christianity, by David Couchman
  • Thoughts on Scotland: Samuel Rutherford—A Reformed Mystic? by David Estrada
  • Reading Difficult Poetry as a Christian Endeavour, by Doug Baker
  • In Memory of the Versatile Purtian Divine, Dr John Wallis (1616–1703), by Frances Luttikhuizen
  • Reflections of Recent Studies Concerning Giordano Bruno, by Colin Wright

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