Bruce Charlton's Notions

* I noticed from the Stats that yesterday this blog broke half a million page views. It is running at somewhat more than 1000 page views p...

* Everything you need to know about the necessary framework for real teaching can briefly be stated. In fact I will briefly state it. Her...

* [Note: An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms - such as painfully comfortable or gorgeously hideous.] * ...

* Matthew 18:3 Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven...

* The modern world is characterized by Adolescent Societies. * In the developing world there are more than 40 nations whose median age...

* On the one hand, in modern society, all meaning is sustained by memory - our very selves are nothing more than memories . Because (sec...

* In Sodom and Gomorrah - not Constantinople. Yes we do. Restoration of a Christian society is not a political act. A Christian society ...

* I bought this book secondhand, and I don't much like it. I didn't really expect to, since it was written by the Abbot of a Monas...

* The neglected genius, unrecognized during his lifetime is a standard concept in modern discourse. Yet good examples are exceedingly rare...

* As I have said before, I regard the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire as the high point of Christian devoutness in human history - certai...

* In a comment to http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/strategic-dilemma-for-christians-re.html Commenter 'Imnobody'...

* It is interesting how imagination works differently for different people, and for the same person at different times or stages in their ...

* One of the most frequent arguments about the lack of modern geniuses hinges around the assertion that it was easier for geniuses of the...

* The situation for Christianity in the West is that - at least according to worldly calculations and in terms that can be used in the pub...

* Richard Wurmbrand (1909-2001) was a Jewish convert to first Anglican then Lutheran Christianity in Romania where he was imprisoned ...

* A religion can grow by gaining converts, and by breeding - large families and retaining the children. All religions begin by convertin...

* I had a (Mencius) Moldbug moment today when reading a sample of the screeds of fawning admiration expressed in obituaries to the recentl...

* I have watched Mel Gibson's movie Passion of the Christ , and also quite a few segments of Mormon movies about the life of Jesus tha...

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaYRQcuBhME Woe is me by Thomas Tomkins sung by I Fagiolini * There are some composers whose music...

* Modern Christians, in our weakness and dispersion, need to be more careful than ever about heresy: and this means steering a path betwee...

* A while ago I wrote a post advocating that modern Christians should self-identify by wearing a cross or something similar. But today I...