25 OCT 2017 by ideonexus
Profligation of Biblical Literacy Led to Ideological Trib...
Luther thought the result of his movement to reform the Roman Catholic Church would be what came to be called “the priesthood of all believers,” the sixteenth-century equivalent of Zuckerberg’s “global community.” In practice, the Protestant Reformation produced more than a century of bloody religious conflict. This was because new doctrines such as Luther’s, and later John Calvin’s, did not spread evenly through European populations. Although Protestantism swiftly acquired the ...31 MAY 2015 by ideonexus
Tyrrany Sets Up Its Own Echo Chamber
I think it was Utz who first convinced me that history
is always our guide for the future, and always full of
capricious surprises. The future itself is a dead land
because it does not yet exist. When a Czech writer
wishes to comment on the plight of his country, one
way open to him is to use the fifteenth-century Hussite
Rebellion as a metaphor. I found in Prague Museum
this text describing the Hussites' defeat of the German
Knights: ''At midnight, all of a sudden, frightened
shouting was he...Folksonomies: tyrrany
Folksonomies: tyrrany