From this brief account of the origins of the English Reformation under Henry VIII, it will be clear that there are reasons for supposing that Henry’s agenda was political, dominated by his desire to...
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall {i} cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. When tyrants cannot prevail by deceit, they burst into open...
A careful study of the court records of the northern English city of Durham suggests that you had replaced thou as the normal form of address in spoken English by about 1575.
Village. The scholar, Lewis declares, has lived in many times and can thus challenge the automatic presumption of finality inherent in present judgements and trends: We need intimate knowledge of the...
Then reviewed by the Bishops, presented to the Privy Council, lastly ratified by Royal authority. Yet there is actually no documentary evidence that the 1611 Bible ever received final written authoriz...
Without the advent of printing, there would have been no Reformation, and there might well have been no Protestantism either.
There was now a commercial reason for removing the Apocrypha—Bibles without it were both cheaper to produce, and smaller (and hence cheaper to transport overseas). Sensitive to the importance of both...
The printed word was integral to the spreading of the ideas of the Reformation across the religious and political boundaries of Europe. Martin Luther never visited England, yet his ideas were brought...
The evidence strongly suggests that the first English Bible to be brought to the New World was the Geneva Bible. Not only had this been available longer, it was the translation of choice for the Purit...
The New Testament develops two interrelated themes. First, the Christian faith shows us the way things really are. This is about revelation, coming to see things properly. But revelation alone doesn’t...
So why did the King James translators use an archaic verbal form in what was meant to be a modern translation? Again, the answer seems to lie with the rules provided for the translators, which more or...
Sehnsucht? The German word is rich with emotional and imaginative associations, famously described by the poet Matthew Arnold as a wistful, soft, tearful longing. And what of the Blue Flower? Leading...
Mere Christianity allows us to understand Christian ideas; the Narnia stories allow us to step inside and experience the Christian story and judge it by its ability to make sense of things and chime i...
Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626) declared that orthodox Christianity was based upon two testaments, three creeds, four gospels, and the first five centuries of Christian history. In
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.8
Heresy thus poses a threat to faith, arguably more serious than many challenges originating from outside the Christian church.
Faith reaches out to where reason points and does not limit itself to where reason stops.
Doubt is a subject which many Christians find both difficult an sensitive. They may see it as something shameful and disloyal, on the same level as heresy. As a result, it is something that they don't...
To its critics, the study of theology distracts from real life. But, at its best, theology inspires and informs precisely the committed and caring ministry.
Helped Lewis along in the final stage of what the medieval writer Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (1221–1274) describes as the journey of the mind to God.