The Past as Future Orientation
Sep 8th, 2010 | By George Grant | Category: Discipleship & Education“People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.” Edmund Burke
“People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.” Edmund Burke
Samuel Rutherford was born in 1600 near Nisbet, Scotland. Though little is known of his early life, it is clear that he was raised in a pious home that put great emphasis on education. In 1627 he completed his academic work at the University of Edinburgh, where he was appointed Professor of Humanities. That same [...]
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“You can never dictate the future by the past–you may however, ameliorate its illest effects and heighten its greatest delights by its remembrance.” Edmund Burke
Richard the Lionhearted, son of Henry II and Eleanor of Acquataine, was crowned as King Richard I of England at Westminster Abbey on this day in 1189. After he was anointed on the head, breast and shoulders, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the officers of his royal army invested him with the cap, tunic, [...]
There is indeed a war going on in Afghanistan. In fact, there are two. One is being fought with bullets, bombs, and boots on the ground. The other war (the one with more lasting importance) is being fought in an entirely different theater. In this other war, the real enemy of [...]
Consider if you will that Harvard was once a bastion for cultivating biblically-minded individuals. Burning with a passion to instill doctrinally-sound principles and practices, the first colleges of America made no qualms about their purpose.
Where are Harvard and the whole of the higher education system now? Fueled by billions of secular humanist [...]
I’ve received a number of emails and calls about translating Family Driven Faith (and What He Must Be) into different languages. Let me remind you that I DO NOT TRANSLATE MY BOOKS. That is a complicated process that takes more time, talent and resources than I have at my disposal. Here’s how [...]