By contrast, the biblical view made modern science possible by enabling the Christian mind to be content with partial and finite knowledge, which grows incrementally through coordinated efforts over generations.

Several recent studies have explored the Bible’s role in launching modern science. For nonspecialists, an excellent starting point is Rodney Stark’s book For the Glory of God. Stark,

Rodney Stark, in his authoritative study The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History,18 discusses the rise of Christianity in its early

We had not heard of Jonathan Edwards’s book The Religious Affections (1746). Edwards, America’s first philosopher, based his teaching on St. Augustine’s trinitarian view of man derived from the New Testament. Edwards’s paradigm, Dixon said, was far more useful for clinical psychology than Charles Darwin’s 1872 book The Expressions of the Emotions i

I was grateful for Vinay’s insight, for I had never seen the connections of morality to liberty, liberty to the status of women, and the status of women to the strength of a society.

The family, not the monastery, was the divinely ordained school of character.

Secular historians have yet to compute Comenius’s contributions to the modern world.

St. Augustine (AD 354–430) in affirming every human being as a trinity of existence (being), intellect, and will.

William Carey, a young cobbler turned linguist, published what became the manifesto of modern Western Protestant missions: “An Enquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathen.” He