Have you noticed how easily facts can be "spun" to match an author’s presuppositions? This is the greatest handicap of secondary historical writing whether historical fiction such as "The Da Vinci Code" or supposedly "objective" university textbooks. In secondary historical analysis the reader is getting spoon fed the opinions of the author, to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the motives of the writer. This is fine as long as the opinions of the scholar are healthy and orthodox. But what do we do when the majority of scholars during our generation have a unhealthy and sometimes even blasphemous bias against orthodox Christianity? Primary Sources! They transport us to other ages, not always golden but with different weaknesses and errors than our own. There is little more exciting in life than to get into the mind of our Christian predecessors and hear them speak beyond the grave. The following links and titles will feed for many hours the soul hungry to hear straight from the sources of Christian political doctrine and application. We thank our Great God and Savior for the privilege of having this light made more accessible than ever before to God’s people, and we are sincerely grateful to the scholars who have labored to compile these treasures.
O’Donovan, Oliver. From Irenaeus to Grotius, A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999.
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