Why We Need History More than Ever Before
By tending and keeping the past, Christians can equip ourselves to communicate the truth, goodness, and beauty of Jesus Christ to a confused and rootless world.
By tending and keeping the past, Christians can equip ourselves to communicate the truth, goodness, and beauty of Jesus Christ to a confused and rootless world.
Jesus Christ refused to pick up his sword. Instead, the weapons of violence were used on him, but he rose up to proclaim peace.
‘God and Country’ equips Christians to love their country without worshiping it and to critique its sins without despising its gifts.
The church needs faithful historians who can help us understand what really happened in the past, as reconstructed through the best evidence available, regardless of what we think we remember.
The church is always situated in a cultural context. Ever since the early church, Christians have grappled with how to speak the gospel into culture and become all things to all people while remaining true to biblical teachings. And yet contemporary Western societies have largely lost their meaningful engagement with, and connection to, history. This has left them disconnected from the full scope of the cultural context of the church. I have coined the term “Ahistoric Age” to identify the way in which this plays out. There are five major characteristics of the Ahistoric Age: 1. We believe that the...