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What I have tried to demonstrate is that the principle of unbelief — the sovereignty of Reason and the sovereignty of the People — while it proclaims Liberty, must end in either radicalism or despotism: in the disintegra…
The Revolution, with its variety of schools of thought and its successive historical manifestations, is the consequence, the application, the unfolding of unbelief.
The Reformation cannot possibly have been the cause of the Revolution, since it sprang from an antithetical principle: from objective unity of faith rather than diversity of subjective opinions; from the infallibility of…
The Reformation wants to be free from Tradition whenever it contradicts the Bible, free from human command whenever it conflicts with the divine commandments. It desires prayerful searching of the Scriptures, not in orde…
All power is of God. A civil power is God's lieutenant and God's minister. In this duality of the relation—its twofold direction, upwards and downwards—lies the whole theory of divine right. We are to obey the higher pow…
Centralization always begins by destroying the rights of provinces and municipalities and, if forced to be consistent, ends by tolerating in fact no right or activity or existence except under its supervision and control…
The Revolution doctrine is unbelief applied to politics. A life and death struggle is raging between the Gospel and this practical atheism. To contemplate a rapprochement between the two would be nonsense.
By Revolution I do not mean one of the many events whereby a government is overthrown. Nor do I just mean by it the storm of upheaval that has raged in France. Rather, by Revolution I mean the whole inversion of the gene…
Christian education is the chief business of the hour for every earnest Christian man. Christianity cannot subsist unless men know what Christianity is; and the fair and logical thing is to learn what Christianity is, no…
Whether or not liberals are Christians, it is at any rate perfectly clear that liberalism is not Christianity.
The greatest menace to the Christian Church today comes not from the enemies outside, but from the enemies within; it comes from the presence within the Church of a type of faith and practice that is anti-Christian to th…
The Bible, to the Christian is not a burdensome law, but the very Magna Charta of Christian liberty.
The Sermon on the Mount, like all the rest of the New Testament, really leads a man straight to the foot of the Cross.
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What I have tried to demonstrate is that the principle of unbelief — the sovereignty of Reason and the sovereignty of the People — while it proclaims Liberty, must end in either radicalism or despotism: in the disintegra…
The Revolution, with its variety of schools of thought and its successive historical manifestations, is the consequence, the application, the unfolding of unbelief.
The Reformation cannot possibly have been the cause of the Revolution, since it sprang from an antithetical principle: from objective unity of faith rather than diversity of subjective opinions; from the infallibility of…
The Reformation wants to be free from Tradition whenever it contradicts the Bible, free from human command whenever it conflicts with the divine commandments. It desires prayerful searching of the Scriptures, not in orde…
All power is of God. A civil power is God's lieutenant and God's minister. In this duality of the relation—its twofold direction, upwards and downwards—lies the whole theory of divine right. We are to obey the higher pow…
Centralization always begins by destroying the rights of provinces and municipalities and, if forced to be consistent, ends by tolerating in fact no right or activity or existence except under its supervision and control…
The Revolution doctrine is unbelief applied to politics. A life and death struggle is raging between the Gospel and this practical atheism. To contemplate a rapprochement between the two would be nonsense.
By Revolution I do not mean one of the many events whereby a government is overthrown. Nor do I just mean by it the storm of upheaval that has raged in France. Rather, by Revolution I mean the whole inversion of the gene…
Christian education is the chief business of the hour for every earnest Christian man. Christianity cannot subsist unless men know what Christianity is; and the fair and logical thing is to learn what Christianity is, no…
Whether or not liberals are Christians, it is at any rate perfectly clear that liberalism is not Christianity.
The greatest menace to the Christian Church today comes not from the enemies outside, but from the enemies within; it comes from the presence within the Church of a type of faith and practice that is anti-Christian to th…
The Bible, to the Christian is not a burdensome law, but the very Magna Charta of Christian liberty.
The Sermon on the Mount, like all the rest of the New Testament, really leads a man straight to the foot of the Cross.