As Lewis later put it, All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
An exception to this was the English community in Geneva, which attracted approximately one-quarter of the émigrés; it was hailed by John Knox as the most perfect school of Christ, the finest embodime...
Acts 24:24 in 1611 referred to Drusilla, the wife of the Roman governor Felix, as a Jew; in 1629, this was altered to Jewess. The original translation of Mark 10:18 read thus: there is no man good, bu...
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak (Matthew 26:41). Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but...
Literature—above all, poetry—was Lewis’s firewall, keeping the chaotic and meaningless external world at a safe distance, and shielding him from the existential devastation it wreaked on others.
Aquinas argues that everything that moves is moved by something else. For every motion, there is a cause. Things do not just move – they are moved by something else. Now each cause of motion must itse...
The first printing of the King James Bible in 1611 included a number of printing errors. For example, a small slip in the typesetting of the description of the interior of the tabernacle led to the fo...
How does humanity find God and enter into a relationship with him—a relationship that delivers humanity once and for all from fear of death, hell, or damnation? Luther is adamant: this relationship is...