Elijah, I promise we’re almost done looking at the biblical foundations of (my understanding of) “mission.” We’re now at the New Testament and I don’t plan on dissecting it as thoroughly as I did the Old. I promise.
We Christians know the story of Jesus pretty dang well already, and what Paul and Peter and James… 
Posts Tagged ‘church history’
Answering Elijah (Part 10)
Read With Discernment… Especially Donald Miller
I bought Donald Miller‘s book A Million Miles In A Thousand Years for my wife recently…at Barnes & Noble – across the street from my local LifeWay store. I think I was too hard on them.
I planned to buy it at LifeWay but when I pulled the book from the shelf I discovered that it…
Good Reason To Gather
Justin Martyr was martyred for his faith in 165 AD. His description of how Christians (Jews and Gentiles) gathered in Rome at that time is one of the oldest “orders of service” on record. It’s believed that what he describes happening among Roman Christians was the norm for Christians everywhere during his time period. He…
Just War Part 8: De Vitoria (When No One’s Right)
As the sun set on the middle ages a new generation of Just War thinkers rose to prominence, seeing the world through a new lens their predecessors never accounted for: colonialism. It was the sixteenth century and Columbus sailed the ocean blue, bringing Mother Spain’s armed conquistadors with him and firmly wedging Just War proponents…
Just War Part 7: Jus Ad Bellum & Jus In Bello
Once these major contributions to Just War thinking by warriors (knights) and the Church (Augustine and Aquinas) were made and largely accepted among Catholics of the Middle Ages, the tradition of Just War was taught as having two components: the right to go to war and the right conduct of war. These were labeled in…
Just War Part 6: Chivalry
Picking up where we left off with Augustine and Aquinas, the next major development in the evolution of Just War doctrine was chivalry – the code of conduct followed by the knights of the Middle Ages. Chivalry imposed upon warriors a set of regulations for the conduct of war(1). Since knights did not declare wars…
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