“I myself, as old and as learned as I am, recite the commandments daily word for word like a child.”14”
― Antinomianism: Reformed Theology's Unwelcome Guest?
― Antinomianism: Reformed Theology's Unwelcome Guest?
“In 1932 he and other leading eugenicists attended the Third Inter-national Congress of Eugenics, which was held in New York City. The exhibits were intended to show that eugenics was a “pure and applied science.” Major Leonard Darwin, the son of Charles Darwin, also presented his views at the meeting. The New York Times reported on the event. Eugenists from all over the world will attend the Third International Congress of Eugenics today and tomorrow at the American Museum of Natural History. At general and sectional meetings they will discuss advances in the study for the physical and mental improvement of the human race… It [the exhibit] will seek to emphasize the fact that eugenics is concerned primarily with racial and family-stock, quality in the turn-over of population from generation to generation. “As a pure science,” the announcement says, “eugenics tries to understand the forces which govern this turn-over, while as an applied science it strives to use these forces in the improvement of family-stocks and races.”
― Dissolving Illusions
― Dissolving Illusions
“Luther’s objection to the antinomian preachers of his day, who were “fine Easter preachers but disgraceful Pentecost preachers, for they taught only redemption through Christ and not the sanctification through the Holy Spirit.”16”
― Antinomianism: Reformed Theology's Unwelcome Guest?
― Antinomianism: Reformed Theology's Unwelcome Guest?
“While the errors of perfectionism have been and always will be a threat to true Christian religion, the opposite error of practical antinomianism, whereby preachers fail to exhort their people to obey God with a pure heart, is equally pernicious because such a view undermines the grace of God in saving sinners from the power of sin.”
― Antinomianism: Reformed Theology's Unwelcome Guest?
― Antinomianism: Reformed Theology's Unwelcome Guest?
“Knox’s daily devotional routine was built around the Psalms, and throughout his life he followed the liturgical practice, acquired as a child in Haddington’s church, of moving through the entire psalter every month.”
― John Knox
― John Knox
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