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I Survived!: 5 Bible Characters Who Survived Disasters

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“It was evangelicals' sense of rudderlessness - their desire for an authority to guide them in questions of dogma, life, and worship - that led them to rediscover liturgy and history in the first place. The irony was that in their smorgasbord approach to non-Protestant tradition, in their individualistic rejection of the rules of any one church in favor of a free run of the so-called church universal, in their repudiation of American nationalism in favor of cosmopolitanism, young evangelicals were being quintessentially evangelical and stereotypically American, doing as they pleased according to no authority but their own. The principle of sola scriptura was far clearer in theory than in practice. No matter evangelicals' faith that, with the 'illumination of the Holy Spirit,' 'Scripture could and should interpret itself,' too many illuminated believers came to different conclusions about what the Bible meant. Inerrantists who asserted their 'literal' interpretation with absolute certainty could do so only by covertly relying on modern, manmade assumptions. Other evangelicals were now searching for similar assurance in the authority of church history and the mystery of worship.”

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Book:Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism
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“The voyage had proved a human and financial disaster. Of the 198 men who rounded the Cape, only 25 returned alive. Worse still, two of the three ships had been lost and the one that did manage to limp into port was carrying not spices but scurvy. Lancaster had proved--if proof was needed--that the spice trade involved risks that London's merchants could ill afford. It was not until they learned that the Dutch had entered the spice race, and achieved a remarkable success, that they would consider financing a new expedition to the islands of the East Indies.”

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Book:Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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“De moeder van mijn moeder was een Javaansche vrouw. Meent u dat het geestig is, majoor, om mij daarom te bespotten? U hebt in Breda de academie doorloopen. Daar hebt u, toen u jong was, het een en ander moeten leeren van de Geschiedenis der Hollanders op Java. In die geschiedenis vindt u eindelooze reeksen opstanden waarbij Hollandsche moeders en kinderen werden vermoord. Moet u nu nog van mij leeren, hoe vaak het gebeurd is, dat Javaansche baboes met gevaar voor eigen leven getracht hebben de Hollandsche kinderen te redden, die aan haar zorgen waren toevertrouwd? Is u uit de geschiedenis der Hollanders op Java vergeten, majoor, hoeveel Javaansche vrouwen zich voor die kinderen aan stukken hebben laten hakken?…. Als u dat niet weet, dan kent u de geschiedenis van Nederlandsch-Indië slecht. En als u het wel weet, schaam u dan, als u iemand een sienjo noemt.”

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Book:Dolle Hans: Indo-drama in drie bedrijven
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