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Covenanters rejected slavery and racism in the very era both emerged as common sense to most Americans.
“calling them to the things of primary importance by means of those which were secondary; that is, to things that are real, by means of those that are typical; and by things temporal, to eternal; and by the carnal to the spiritual; and by the earthly to the heavenly;”
― The Complete Ante-Nicene & Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Collection
― The Complete Ante-Nicene & Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Collection
“The primary task of the Church is to evangelize and preach the gospel...If the Church is always denouncing one particular section of society, she is shutting the evangelistic door upon that section.”
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“There is nothing in God's universe that is so utterly useless as a merely formal Christian. I mean by that, one who has the name but not the quality of a Christian...He has enough 'Christianity' to spoil everything else, but not enough to give him real happiness, peace and joy and abundance of life...They do not function as worldlings or Christians. They are nothing, neither salt nor light, neither one thing nor the other.”
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“The trouble with man is not in his intellect, it is in his nature--the passions and the lusts...and though you try to educate and control man it will avail nothing as long as his nature is sinful and fallen and he is a creature of passion and dishonor.”
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“Attack the silence of Pythagoras, and the Orphic beans, and that preposterous brag, "Himself has spoken." Attack the "Ideas" of Plato, and the transbodiment and circulation of our souls, and the reminiscences, and the unlovely loves of lovely bodies, though directed to the beloved's soul. Attack the atheism of Epicurus, and his atoms, and his doctrine of pleasure, unworthy of a philosopher; or Aristotle's petty Providence, and his artificial system, and his discourses about the mortality of the soul, and the exclusively human focus his teaching. Attack the haughtiness of the Stoa, or the greed and vulgarity of the Cynic. Attack for me the emptiness that is full of absurdities - all that stuff about the gods and the sacrifices and the idols and the demons, whether beneficent or malignant, and all the tricks that people play with divination, the calling up of gods or of souls, and the power of stars.”
― The Five Theological Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus
― The Five Theological Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus
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