Classic Christian books in modern English with chapter summaries and discussions.
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Classic Christian books in modern English with chapter summaries and discussions.
The goal of these courses is to help students better understand and delight in Christ through Scriptural theology in the light of a careful reading of historic Christian books. “A careful reading” because we want to honor the author and his book and deal rightly with its contents (“love your neighbor as yourself”). “Scriptural theology” because our main focus at Biblearc is on studying the Bible. “To better understand and delight in” because theology should not only inform the head but affect the heart and hands.
Chapter Summary
Philosophy answers Boethius’s challenge. First, she states that everything that happens in the universe originates in the unchanging divine mind, who plans everything that happens. This plan is called Providence when viewed from God’s perfect perspective as a whole, but Fate when viewed by man’s limited perspective as it occurs. Providence is God’s perfect plan, while Fate is God’s carrying out that plan in time. Therefore, the second aspect depends on the first. Even though some of God’s purposes are impossible for us to understand because we cannot view the whole, those purposes do exist, and move everything in the universe toward the Good. God deals rightly with every human being, according to what he knows he needs, whether that means giving adversity to a person who appears just but is not, withholding adversity from a just person, giving adversity to a just person to increase his virtue, giving adversity or blessings to a wicked person either to destroy him or heal him (and only God can make an evil person good). Human beings must accept the fact of God’s guidance of all things toward the Good, because no one can fully grasp or explain all that God does.
About The Consolation of Philosophy
Written in the 6th-century from a prison cell as the author awaits execution for a crime he did not commit, The Consolation of Philosophy is a dialogue between Boethius and a mysterious woman—Lady Philosophy—who helps him rediscover wisdom and virtue.
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Classic Christian books in modern English with chapter summaries and discussions.
The goal of these courses is to help students better understand and delight in Christ through Scriptural theology in the light of a careful reading of historic Christian books. “A careful reading” because we want to honor the author and his book and deal rightly with its contents (“love your neighbor as yourself”). “Scriptural theology” because our main focus at Biblearc is on studying the Bible. “To better understand and delight in” because theology should not only inform the head but affect the heart and hands.
