Ten Top Reasons to study Christian History

[learning]

From the Christianity Today web site, here is a list of reasons to study Christian History. I agree with the first one, that one cannot understand our Western society without seeing the major influence that Christianity has had on it, even if our western societies are mostly post-Christian now, this still is important in understanding our culture.

I like this quote from C.S. Lewis
'It's not remembered past, it's the forgotten past that enslaves us.'

www.christianitytoday.com/history/newsletter/2003/mar28.html

[Amazing Rando]

Good call, learning! Without a good knowledge of church history, we're often doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.

[Keith Rex]

Indeed, you cannot give assent to anything if you know nothing about it. This is very much the fault of Preachers who love to get large numbers of converts. Then off they go and you never hear from them again. They have whipped people up into a an emotional frensy and they make a "decision" for Jesus. They might just as well have made a decision for Hitler for all it means to them.
This is the culture of Instant. Instant fast food, instant fast salvation. It is all just junk. Not only does not satisfy but makes you sick.

[FreezBee]

From the Christianity Today web site, here is a list of reasons to study Christian History. I agree with the first one, that one cannot understand our Western society without seeing the major influence that Christianity has had on it, even if our western societies are mostly post-Christian now, this still is important in understanding our culture.

Yes, much in modern day society is related to Christianity, whether it is pro or con. But remember that Christianity did not arise out of empty ground either!

I like this quote from C.S. Lewis
'It's not remembered past, it's the forgotten past that enslaves us.'

Or maybe it's imagined past! The present determines the past, not the other way around. A critical examination of claimed past can occasionally be liberating from the enslavement under an imagined past.


- FreezBee

[Keith Rex]

Yes, much of our "past' is pure imagination - like Horiato defends the bridge. Charming stories that never happend. Invented for moral elevation - as though lies could be morally elevating?

[FreezBee]

Yes, much of our "past' is pure imagination - like Horiato defends the bridge. Charming stories that never happend. Invented for moral elevation - as though lies could be morally elevating?

Indeed, that's the strange paradox. Defenders of the imagined past claim that they are good stories that teach us a moral - and create the feeling of belonging to a glorious nation, not to forget! With this kind of logic, what can be wrong? Except to expose the lies, of course!

- FreezBee