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Quotes of the Week

Quote of the Week

by Jimmy Hopper

Christopher Dawson is a renowned historian who is not much read in academic circles because, though his specialty is European history, his focus is not so much on materialistic issues but on spiritual issues. The quote below comes from his very scholarly book, Dynamics of World History. The thought came to me through Elder Bob Prince’s devotional in last night’s Session meeting of the unstable nature of life as he spoke of the immutability, the unchanging nature and character of God as opposed to the “unintelligable chaos” of life. Dawson addresses this in History. Read and consider this quote and give us your thoughts and comments on how being a Christian brings us, if it does, to this viewpoint regarding history and even how we are impacted in our day to day lives.

It seems to me that the Christian is bound to believe that there is a spiritual purpose in history—that it is subject to the designs of Providence and that somehow or other God’s will is done. History is not a mere unintelligible chaos of disconnected events.