10/29/2016
#208 RELIEF MAPS
GOAFS II: #208
RELIEF MAPS
OCTOBER 30,
2016
I once had a small book, 1066 and all That, A Memorable History of England, comprising all
the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2
Genuine Dates. It included a number of maps like “The Production of Exporto
Grass by County in the British Isles.”
Periodically there was a map labeled “Relief Map” with an invitation from
the authors to take a break and relax from all the weighty thinking. In the
book the maps were all blank.
RELIEF MAP
Now that you are relaxed, consider what Abraham Kuyper had to say about the
Reformed doctrine of The Providence of God:
“There
is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which
Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!”
Wikipedia summarizes Kuyper:
“Abraham Kuijper; 29 October 1837 – 8 November 1920, generally
known as Abraham Kuyper, was a Dutch journalist, statesman and Neo-Calvinist theologian. He was a master
organiser. He founded a new church (the Gereformeerde Kerken), a newspaper, the
Free University of Amsterdam, and the Anti-Revolutionary Party. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905. In religious
affairs, he sought to adapt the Dutch Reformed Church to the challenges posed
by the loss of state financial aid and by religious pluralism, rising
nationalism, and the Arminian religious revivals of his day which denied predestination. He
vigorously denounced modernism in theology as a fad that would pass away. In
politics, he dominated the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) from its founding in
1879 to his death in 1920. He promoted, pillarization, the social expression of
the anti-thesis in public life, whereby Protestant, Catholic and secular
elements each had their own independent schools, universities. He was active
and influential in the government from 1873-1920.”
Kuyper could not tolerate the exclusion of God from the governing of the
state—something to think about as we
ponder the general Godless lawlessness of the current political environment.
Now, in case you feel the in need of another relief map, here are the seeds
of the Clematis, something Kuyper would have included in the “all” that belongs
to God, the Creator and Sustainer of all that is. Kuyper, and John Calvin
(below) believed that the starting place of any political consideration should
be a solid foundation of epistemology (the branch of Philosophy concerned with
the theory of knowledge—how we know) and consistent theological
presuppositions.
“…not a drop of rain falls but at the express command of God.”
John
Calvin on the doctrine of Divine Providence
Clematis Seeds
Jerry Sweers
GROWING OLD
AIN’T FOR SISSIES
Sailing directions for Pilgrims of the Heart.
Remembrances, reflections and rants
of an endangered species;
Curmudgensis Americanus
Bibliophilius
site: crmudgeon.blogspot.com
10/20/2016
#207A THE GREAT DEBATE
GOAFS II: #207
THE GREAT
DEBATE
OCTOBER 22, 2016
When the early Jesuit fathers
preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
They prayed to be delivered from the
vengeance of the squaws.
‘Twas the women, not the warriors,
turned those stark
enthusiasts
pale.
For the female of the species is
more deadly than th male.
THE FEMALE OF THE
SPECIES 1911 RUDYARD KIPLING
Between the conception and the
creation
Between th emotion and the response
Falls the shadow…
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
THE HOLLOW MEN 1925 T.S. ELIOT
THE FOOL… THE TOOL…
Jerry Sweers
GROWING OLD
AIN’T FOR SISSIES
Sailing directions for Pilgrims of the Heart.
Remembrances, reflections and rants
of an endangered species;
Curmudgensis Americanus
Bibliophilius
site: crmudgeon.blogspot.com
