A Brief Book Notice from Books At a Glance
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Society
Chapter 2 Art and Scholarship (School)
Chapter 3 The State
Chapter 4 The Church
Chapter 5 Humanity and the Kingdom of God
Selected Quotes
- “…external circumstances are not important to being a Christian; the important thing is to keep God’s commandments, and that can be done in any situation.” (8)
- “By generation, from all eternity, the full image of God is communicated to the Son; by creation only a weak and pale image of God is communicated to the creature. Still, the two are connected.” (58)
- “The power of a helpless child is great; it awakens helpfulness, love, and devotion, and gives rise to the most heroic deeds of self-denial.” (75)
- “The unfed body starves to death physically; the unfed soul starves to death spiritually…Nurture is essential, a vital condition for the spiritual, rational-moral well-being of humans.” (77)
- “In sum, the God who created the world and established its laws and norms also created human beings in his image with the capacity to know what is real, what is true, good, and beautiful.” (107)
- “Christian scholarship is therefore the kind that investigates all things in the light of that revelation and therefore see things as they really are, in their essence.” (118)
- “But maintaining justice in a sinful society makes coercion necessary; today, coercion is inseparable from justice.” (124)
- “The kingdom of God extends as far as Christianity itself. It exists wherever Christ rules, wherever he dwells by his Spirit.” (185)
- “And when the Kingdom of God makes itself known in its full glory, in its genuine essence, as the highest good, then the kingdom of Satan will also display its true and naked form as the highest evil.” (201)