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W. Bradford Littlejohn
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For those who have been following this blog for a long time, or who have just stumbled upon it via a Google search, you may want to know that this blog has found a new home, bradlittlejohn.com. From now on, any new posts will appear there, not here, and I am also gradually migrating the archives from this blog—or rather, the best posts that are still worth reading—to the blog there. However, you
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“it is worth pausing to consider the oddity of the charge that Protestantism drove God out of everyday life. After all, it was Luther’s intention to do just the opposite—to bring Christianity out of the monasteries and private masses of the chantry chapels into the ordinary life of the layman. To be sure, hearing priests chant in a foreign language behind an altar screen may have induced a certain frisson, but the Lutheran farmer lustily singing psalms in German while he ploughed his fields surely had a fuller sense of the presence of God in his work and in the world. The magisterial Reformers sought to transform the notion of the “spiritual kingdom” from an institutional realm of the clergy alone to a dimension of existence animating every aspect of a Christian’s life.”
― The Two Kingdoms: A Guide for the Perplexed
― The Two Kingdoms: A Guide for the Perplexed
“The two kingdoms were not two institutions or even two domains of the world, but two ways in which the kingship of Christ made itself felt in the life of each and every believer.”
― The Two Kingdoms: A Guide for the Perplexed
― The Two Kingdoms: A Guide for the Perplexed
“Properly speaking, the rulers of the kingdoms of this world, mediating as they do the authority of Christ, are likewise responsible for sustaining the creation order for the sake of its redemption. Their task is not to try and achieve this redemption, but neither should they be wholly indifferent to it. Their office is only coherent if it has a purpose or end—sustaining the creation order—and this end is only coherent if it is itself directed toward a final end—the consummation of this order.”
― The Two Kingdoms: A Guide for the Perplexed
― The Two Kingdoms: A Guide for the Perplexed
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
― Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
