“Looking back to [Christendom's] youth, we recall the emotional stirrings, the deep sense of Christian purpose, when a temple, say, challenged the existing social order... Where is our Christian duty, our Christian aim? We do not know, we cannot say.… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“If only there were an inhabited field of discourse where Christians were thinking Christianly about everything, there would be something nutritive for Christian minds to feed on. But Christians are being truncated and deformed by the fact that men and women have to leap about from one tradition of discourse to another as they move in thought and discussion from… — Harry Blamires Copy Share
“...the wise words of a friend and guide rang in my head. 'How would you distinguish a true servant of God from a traitor?...You… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History. — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“In so far as the church nurtures the schizophrenic Christian, the church herself contributes to the very process of dismemberment which it is her specific business to check and counter. For the church's function is properly to reconstitute the concept and the reality of the fill man, faculties, and forces blended and united in the service of God. The church's… — Harry Blamires Copy Share
“And here, right at the start, one encounters a new difficulty. For the task of reestablishing the notion of God's authority is obstructed not only by the depreciation of authority itself, but also by a false, pre-established picture of God- found even within the church. Certainly, the church has preserved the concept of a loving God, a merciful God, a… — Harry Blamires Copy Share
“We ourselves have so long ceased to use it [the Christian worldview] except for the discussion of the moral, the liturgical, or the spiritual,… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“Looking back to [Christendom's] youth, we recall the emotional stirrings, the deep sense of Christian purpose, when a temple, say, challenged the existing social… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“When a man falls in love, he sees the beloved in an idealized vision which to the rest of the world seems unjustified by… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“The Christian mind is the prerequisite of Christian thinking, and Christian thinking is the prerequisite for Christian action.” — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“The collision between a Christian mind and a solidly earthbound culture ought to be a violent one.” — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
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