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The Passivity Of American Christians

The myths that are intimidating those who hold forth a biblical heritage, and what can be done about them.

Harold O.J. Brown | posted 7/09/2007 11:55AM

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Christianity Today published an obituary on July 9.

Harold O.J. Brown's articles for Christianity Today include:

Superman on the Screen: Counterfeit Myth? | Heroes have disappeared. They have been replaced by superheroes-fantasy creatures. (April 20, 1979 issue)

The Importance of Being Western | Why are we so embarrassed that Columbus ever set foot in the New World? (October 5, 1992 issue)

A Decisive Turn to Paganism | Has the nation finally abandoned its Judeo-Christian heritage, or is there still hope? (August 1, 2004)

The Book Report: Things We Ought to Know | Charles Colson's apologetic—and call to action—is in the tradition of Francis Schaeffer. (January 10, 2000)

Abortion and the Failure of Democracy | A review of James Davison Hunter's Before The Shooting Begins: Searching For Democracy In America's Culture War. (August 15, 1994)

The Link Interview: An Evangelical Appraisal | The strength of Orthodoxy, it turns out, is also its greatest temptation. (Christian History & Biography, April 1, 1997)

The Dissatisfaction of Francis Schaeffer | Thirteen years after his death, Schaeffer's vision and frustrations continue to haunt evangelicalism. (March 3, 1997)

Reformed Theological Seminary has kept updates on Brown's health. A memorial service will be held in Charlotte on July 28.

Care Net and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School have obituaries.

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Saralee Howard

Posted: July 20, 2007 10:25 AM


Very, very cogent on the pro life issue....

Xeno77777

Posted: July 13, 2007 10:42 PM

People who have not read Ernest Barker's book "Traditions of Civility's" last essay, "The American Revolution and the Natural Law," which the 1600s colonists brought with them, will not understand the American Revolution, nor their nation's origins. By 1600, Europe's Feudal Lords, by 1600, found their decline's cause was Aristotle and Jesus; and intended to remove knowledge of both. Read Martin Ostwald's Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, book 6, chapter 11, "If a person does not have a sense of forgiveness from such an early age, that it almost seems instinctual, that person will never have 'Good Sense.'" The word Aristotle used, syngome, includes seeing things on sympathetically behalf of the other person, through that persons eyes. This is the likely origin of Mathew 6:12-15. "For if you do not forgive others their trespasses against you, the Lord will not forgive you your trespasses." 150 BC's Hebrew revival aimed to combine Moses with Aristotle.

Brian Westley

Posted: July 09, 2007 1:30 PM


I for one am glad Mr. Brown's view hasn't prevailed over the ensuing 30 years. Public school bureaucrats writing prayers for other peoples' children to recite every morning is not my idea of religious freedom.

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