In studying the seventeenth-century, I have twice encountered a curious eschatology. The eschatology states that the gospel will move westward around the globe until it returns to its starting point with the Jews, at which time Christ will return to judge the world. The two advocates of that doctrine whom I have read are George Herbert and John Eliot. Though Herbert was an MP and an Anglican priest and Eliot was a New England clergyman, they share both that eschatology and a connection to the evangelism of the Indians. [Read more »]
It’s five weeks into the semester, and the scramble to the finish has officially begun. I have now taken my first test, as have my students.
I have also graded my students’ first papers. The grading was rough, and the grades weren’t particularly high, but watching my students’ faces as I handed the papers back nearly killed me. I could just watch them go from hopefulness to utter dejection as they looked at that letter grade. I even made one girl cry. That sight pretty much tore my heart out.
The good news is that my articles for Seas and Waterways of the World are done. Now I just have to get my paper ready for the SC Historical Association–and write some papers for my classes and grade some papers and all that good stuff.
Oh well. :) The Lord has been teaching me a lot about trusting His sufficiency, and, just like my students, I’m responsible to incorporate into my life everything my Teacher says, even when the assignment seems small or insignificant.
D. L. Moody receives ambivalent treatment from conservative Christians. Some treat him with a reverence just short of hagiography for his work as an evangelist, placing him alongside Edwards and Whitefield as a keeper of the revivalist tradition. In that interpretation there is little critical examination of Moody’s message and methods. Others treat Moody more critically, even skeptically, and find fault with him for his sentimentalism and alleged ecumenism. In my experience at least, such critics tend to hold Moody to an anachronistic standard which they do not themselves keep.
The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago, provides an opportunity to test these two interpretations of Moody. [Read more »]
