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History and Miracle
What is a historian to do about miracles, events in time that break the rules of natural law and sensory evidence, products of a supernatural force, that is, God? The easiest approach is, of course, to reject all theism, to … Continue reading
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Tagged god, history, Jeremy Belknap, Miracles, Providence, St. Paul
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Captain John Smith: Conqueror, Colonizer, Commissioner
The Sea Mark: Captain John Smith’s Voyage to New England, published by University Press of New England (http://www.upne.com/1611685169.html), juxtaposes three different mentalities and activities: the conqueror, colonizer, and commissioner. Smith the conqueror was a soldier who believed that whoever was … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglican, Biography, books, Great Commission, history, John Smith, The Sea Mark
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Love and the Constitution
Love and the Constitution Is our society founded on Christian virtues and teachings? What is the greatest Christian teaching? What is the essence of Christianity? What is the one truth above all others that sums Christianity, Christian teachings, Jesus’s life? … Continue reading
The Constitution and Religion
The framers of the Constitution developed their conceptions of religion and government based on a variety of sources: classical political theory, such as Aristotle; European political theory, such as Machiavelli; English political theory, such as Locke and Hobbes; but also … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Biography, books, Christianity, Government
Tagged American Revolution, books, Constitution, Ebenezer Hazard, history, Jeremy Belknap, Love
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Jean Louis Berlandier
I am teaching this semester a course on the History of Science, and am using two of my books: Science in the Ancient World, and Frontier Naturalist: Jean Louis Berlandier and the Exploration of Northern Mexico and Texas. The latter … Continue reading
The Pious Scientist Jeremy Belknap
Jeremy Belknap, who is featured in three of my books: Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap, and the American Revolution, Passaconaway’s Realm, and the American Plutarch, was a pious scientist. He believed that piety is the most important response of the scientist to … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, books, Great Commission, history, Jeremy Belknap, Piety, Pious Science
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Pious Scientists
Oftentimes, missionaries in America were people of exceptional learning. Almon Bacone, for example, the founder of Bacone College, as a faculty member in the 1880s and 1890s taught an incredible number of subjects: Greek, Latin, rhetoric, English literature, logic, natural … Continue reading
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Tagged Almon Bacone, Cotton Mather, Jeremy Belknap, missioanries
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Thinking
“I think, therefore I am.” This famous sentence comes from Rene Descartes the seventeenth-French philosopher. Descartes, a skeptic doubting all, looking for the basic rudiments of reality, discovered a core of reality in the awareness of his own being. By … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, books, history, John Smith, The Sea Mark, thinking
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In Praise of Alexander Posey
Alexander Posey, the Creek poet, was a student and librarian at Indian University, now Bacone College, in the 1890s. During his brief life (1873-1908), Posey published essays, satire, stories, and wonderful poems about nature, life, and death. He wrote whimsically … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Biography, books, Christianity, poetry
Tagged Alexander Posey, Almon Bacone, Bacone College, poetry
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The Messenger’s Way
Carved on the northeast corner of the Bacone College chapel is this passage from the Old Testament: Micah, 6:8: He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good: and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly … Continue reading
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Tagged Almon Bacone, Bacone College, Charles Delaware, Missionaries
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The American Plutarch 