Christendom

“In the spring days and nights of the year 30 A.D. in Jerusalem, between the feasts of Passover and Pentecost, all of Christendom met in one upper room of a nondescript house in an out-of-the-way street: a small group of men headed by a fisherman, and a few women from Galilee. Out of that one room streamed a historical force greater than any other ever known; no more than God Himself is it dead today. These years of Christendom’s apparent eclipse are perhaps the best time to attempt the telling of its full historical story, from preparation through birth and growth, climax, division, and retreat – so as to be more ready for its coming resurrection.”

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“Persons in their earthly lives are indubitably very much affected by social and institutional structures and by economic conditions. But the person is ultimately, metaphysically independent of them. He is not their creature, but God’s creature.”

- two passages from the Introduction to The Founding of Christendom, by Waren H. Carroll, of which I am very excited to begin reading this beautiful morning.

More, I am certain, in the days to follow.