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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 St Augustine (7)

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

Book reviews, Letters to the Editor

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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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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
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

Book reviews, Letters to the Editor and Editorial Notices

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Thursday
Jun302011

Volume 7, No. 1

CONTENTS:

Editorial

  • Egocracy, by Colin Wright

Features:

  • St Augustine: His Life and Thought (Part V), by Colin Wright
  • Evolution and the Sexual Revolution, by Thomas Schirrmacher
  • Music as an Indicator of Social Values, by John Peck
  • The Qur'an and the Bible Compared, by Christine Schirrmacher
  • The Different Forms of Causality and the Thought of the Bible (Part 1), by Jean-Marc Berthoud
  • Any Questions: meat and Morality in Acts 15:20, 29, by Stephen Perks

 Book reviews

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