Unique in its Influence of Western Civilization
The influence of the Bible and its teaching in the Western world is clear for all who study history. And the influential role of the West in the course of world events is equally clear, Civilization has been influenced more by the Judeo-Christian Scriptures than by any other book or series of books in the world. Indeed, no greater moral or religious work in the world exceeds the depth of morality in the
principle of Christian love, and none has a more lofty spiritual concept than the biblical view of God. The Bible presents the highest ideals known to men, ideals that have molded civilization.
- Norman Geisler, former professor of systematic theology at Dallas Theological Seminary
Our next task is to attempt an understanding of the Christian belief system. Any recapitulation of our cultural and intellectual history must address this task with care, for Christianity has presided over Western culture for most of the latter's existence, not only bearing its central spiritual impulse for the last two millenia but also influencing its philosophical and scientific evolution well on through the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Even now, in less obvious but no less significant ways, the Christian world view still affects—indeed permeates—the Western cultural psyche, even when the latter is most apparently secular in disposition.
- Richard Tarnas in his introductory paragraph from the chapter entitled “The Christian World View” in his book The Passion of the Western Mind
Did you know...
That the source most often cited by the founding fathers of the United States in their public political writings was the Bible.?
Two professors, Donald S. Lutz and Charles S. Hyneman, reviewed an estimated 15,000 items, closely analyzing 2,200 books, pamphlets, newspaper articles, and monographs with explicitly political content printed between 1760 and 1805. They reduced this number to 916 items, encompassing about one-third of all public political writings longer than 2,000 words.
For these items, Lutz and Hyneman identified 3,154 references to other sources. The source most often cited by the founding fathers was the Bible, which accounted for 34% of all citations. The fifth book of the Bible, Deuteronomy, because of its heavy emphasis on biblical law, was frequently referred to.
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