Deuteronomy 32:7,29
Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you. ...They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.
If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be!
Romans 15:4
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
2 Peter 3:2
I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.
"We need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems certain to the uneducated is merely temporary fashion.
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village: the scholar has lived in many timeas and therefore is in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.
--C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, "Learning in War-time," p. 28-29.
"By studying the past we can learn not only historical but metaphysical or transcendental truth."
--C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image, p. 174.
A couple of weeks ago Ted showed me this article in CT: Chris Armstrong's "The Future lies in the Past."
Yesterday, my colleague Bonnie at EBC told me about hearing Leonard Sweet speak recently about the need to rediscover the past. (Wow. Has he ever done a 180 since Soul Tsunami. Forgive me, but my skepticism is surfacing here. Why is it that I am having such a hard time not believing that he hasn't sniffed where the publishing and speaking winds are about to blow, and so is poised for profit? )
Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you. ...They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.
If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be!
Romans 15:4
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
2 Peter 3:2
I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.
"We need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems certain to the uneducated is merely temporary fashion.
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village: the scholar has lived in many timeas and therefore is in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.
--C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, "Learning in War-time," p. 28-29.
"By studying the past we can learn not only historical but metaphysical or transcendental truth."
--C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image, p. 174.
A couple of weeks ago Ted showed me this article in CT: Chris Armstrong's "The Future lies in the Past."
Yesterday, my colleague Bonnie at EBC told me about hearing Leonard Sweet speak recently about the need to rediscover the past. (Wow. Has he ever done a 180 since Soul Tsunami. Forgive me, but my skepticism is surfacing here. Why is it that I am having such a hard time not believing that he hasn't sniffed where the publishing and speaking winds are about to blow, and so is poised for profit? )
Phyllis Tickle is blogging about the ancient future church.
The Spirit is on the move! Among a postmodern people who idolize their present experience, He comes to remind us that "that history is a story with a divine plot." You can't have a Story without a beginning, a middle and an end.
And if Hauerwas is right in his damning criticism of postmodernism,"Who told you the story there is no Story?" then the only way to make sense of our present experience is to re-discover the metaphysical and transcendent truth inherent in the past, and see how it relates to the Divine Plot.
I hope Louis Bouyer is able to see all this.
I hope I live long enough to see it develop and flourish.
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