tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post3940710311702016459..comments2024-03-22T16:09:48.895-04:00Comments on Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Impetus for the CrusadesJames Swanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16136781934797867593noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-71021189311760553652010-06-24T05:56:40.689-04:002010-06-24T05:56:40.689-04:00Viisaus -- thanks for your comments. I'm getti...Viisaus -- thanks for your comments. I'm getting to a place like the one you've reported here.<br /><br />I want to assure you, too, that I'm not interested in going the "PC" route. To my understanding, he is a conservative Catholic -- his works "Modern Times" and also "A History of the American People" seemed to me to deeply value the conservative principles that one could find throughout American history. I would expect that he is providing a similar type of reading of church history.John Bugayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728044301053738095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-64511714732137654342010-06-24T05:53:37.682-04:002010-06-24T05:53:37.682-04:00Augustinefan -- as for the answer to what I hope t...Augustinefan -- as for the answer to what I hope to accomplish, I've answered Tim Enloe at some length here:<br /><br />http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2010/06/violent-tendency-of-western.html?showComment=1277232372036#c2384681342845024466 <br /><br />As far as the fact that you find nothing shocking, just keep in mind that I'm not done yet.<br /><br />I realize this is seeming to go on and on. But what I set out to do is to provide the link between Augustine and the Inquisition. The 1000 years or so in between is a lot of time to have to cover. But we're getting there.John Bugayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728044301053738095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-7689889079178720792010-06-24T00:00:13.886-04:002010-06-24T00:00:13.886-04:00That said, I will not follow the modern PC narrati...That said, I will not follow the modern PC narrative in bewailing over the crusades being "in themselves" some sort of horrible injustice - Christians had a full right to counterattack the brazen Islamic aggression. Seljuk Turks had barbarously overrun the whole formerly-Christian Asia Minor just on the eve of the first crusade.<br /><br />But by the 13th century, popes were using crusades to wipe out their theological opponents like the Hussites (or attempting to do so).Viisaushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02682159289133730565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-78973688373925653402010-06-23T21:29:37.161-04:002010-06-23T21:29:37.161-04:00John,
What do you hope to accomplish with these p...John,<br /><br />What do you hope to accomplish with these posts. I've read all of them and I find nothing shocking.<br /><br />Basically all I want to do is read Paul Johnson's book for more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com