Archives
Meta
Tag Archives: history
Christian Missionaries–Books to Read
I am a historian, and one of my favorite topics to write on is the Christian missionary experience in America.I have just reissued on Amazon a book about Baptist missionaries in America, particularly in Oklahoma: “Marking the Jesus Road: Bacone … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Biography, books, Christianity, Great Commission
Tagged Bacone College, bible, books, catholics, Christianity, faith, history, Jesus, Missionaries, Protestants
Leave a comment
Patrick Hurley, Secretary of War under Hoover, and the Jesus Road
Patrick Hurley was soldier during World War, Secretary of War during the Hoover administration, a lawyer for the Choctaw people, a diplomat for Franklin Roosevelt during World War II, and a philanthropist. One of the special objects of his philanthropy … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Biography, books, Christianity, Great Commission
Tagged books, history, Higher Education, Bacone College, Missionaries, American Indians
Leave a comment
Pious Scientists in the Late Middle Ages
Piety, the awe and respect for God and His Creation, drove philosophers and scientists throughout the Christian era beginning during the Roman Empire and continuing through the European Middle Ages—and beyond. Christian philosopher-scientists relied heavily on their Greek and Roman … Continue reading
Posted in books, Christianity, European history, History of Science
Tagged anselm, Christianity, god, history, philosophy, Piety, Religion, Science, thomas-aquinas
Leave a comment
Early Medieval Pious Scientists
The Fall of Rome had a profound effect on learning and knowledge. After the fifth century A.D. those who were concerned with philosophy, which at this time included science, scrambled to keep track of the great books of the Greco-Roman … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, European history, History of Science
Tagged aristotle, boetius, Christianity, history, isidore-of-seville, john-scotus-eriugena, middle-ages, philosophy, Piety, plato, Science
Leave a comment
Philo Judaeus the Pious Scientist
Ancient thinkers–philosophers and scientists–of the Mediterranean world knew that wisdom is a universal that transcends individual knowing, an awareness of truth that transcends the individual existence of each person. The Old Testament and New Testament imply that the Creation has … Continue reading
Posted in books, Christianity, European history, History of Science
Tagged aristotle, Christianity, history, philosophy, Piety, Religion
Leave a comment
Piety and Science
Records of the human quest for knowledge have existed for four to five thousand years, revealing that as humans have confronted the vastness of the cosmos, as they have watched and listened and felt the natural environment, their response has … Continue reading
Posted in books, Christianity, European history, History of Science
Tagged Christianity, god, history, philosophy, Piety, Religion, Science
Leave a comment
The Great Commission and the Discovery of America
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Americans and Europeans, after they had come to know the variety of indigenous tribes of North America, were perplexed by the question of their origins. The seventeenth-century Puritan clergyman Roger Williams argued that the Indians had remarkable … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Christianity, Great Commission
Tagged christopher-columbus, columbus, Great Commission, history, Missionaries, spain, travel, vikings
Leave a comment
Captain John Smith’s New England
If anyone in American history has the honor of being called the discoverer of New England, it is Captain John Smith. That’s right—John Smith, one of the founders of Jamestown, the savior of the infant colony of the Virginia Company, … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Biography, books
Tagged books, genealogy, history, pilgrims, travel
Leave a comment
The Conundrum of the Past and Present
The Conundrum of the Past is coming an hour and now is… The mirror of the past is the only way to peer at the image of the Son of Man. The reflection is darkened by time and sin. Specters … Continue reading
God’s Shadow over American History
Jean-Pierre Caussade in Abandonment to Divine Providence writes truthfully that God is behind all historical events. If so, then it is God’s will that the United States is in 2025 exactly where He wills it to be. And further, that … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Christianity, God's Providence
Tagged bible, Christianity, Divine Providence, faith, god, history, Jesus
Leave a comment
The American Plutarch 