 
Book Reviews The Arrogance of the Modern: Historical Theology Held in Contempt by David W. Hall Reviewed by Robert P. Mills |
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“Many Christians treat the past like a dead, and therefore irrelevant, ancestor. As a result, memory has little place in an age that has little vision.” The first seven essays in this thoroughly documented study show the dangers of ignoring what prior generations of saints have learned, and taught, about God. The last nine “attempt to remove the log and accept healing salve from earlier spiritual ophthalmologists.” By so precisely identifying and copiously illustrating modern arrogances, Hall succeeds in constructing what he calls “an apology for the usefulness of history,” or “a very lengthy footnote on a singular text … enunciated by Solomon, ‘There is nothing new under the sun.’ ” (For more information on The Calvin Institute, visit their website at www.capo.org.) (RPM) |
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