Saturday 18 September 2010

No windows looking out into eternity

The idolatries of history exalt an age (past, present, future), or a process, or an institution, or a class, or a trend and make it normative. They place the entire meaning of life within the historical process or some part of it, allowing nothing extrinsic to it. Historical events in their relationships exhaust the whole meaning of history.  
Idols for destruction: Christian faith and its confrontation with American society, Ch1 Idols of History, p13

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