Wonderful read, thank you. My greatest/only hope for Canada is in the Kingdom of God, exemplified by his ways and the power of the Holy Spirit in his people, increasing "from sea to sea". Too many Christians who've followed a false eschatology have left the mountains where we are called to influence our society (govt, education, family, religion, arts & entertainment, and business). Now we find ourselves with a climate zealot for a PM and our schools full of progressive activist teachers leading our youth down an anti-human, anti-flourishing path with foolish ideologies. I look forward to your Part 4 essay very much, Dr. Christian.
The Great and Good Monarchs are too few and far in between to rely on this as is hoping for an Enlightened Tyrant. Too much power in the hands of a single person is usually detrimental to the many. I don't know that the flawed human nature can conceive better than flawed systems of governance, of education, of relations with other groups, of economics, etc. Unfortunately, power seems to attract a category of people that should not have power, and the majority is too naive to see it.
I am convinced that ultimately all people in power, including 'godly monarchs' no matter how much they start out with their moral compass in tact, will end up corrupt to some degree. There are too many competing interests to stay pure and moral in your dealings.
Well the problem now is our “protector of the faith” Charlie No 3 has switched sides and practices Islam … that as far as I am concerned..the end of Britain as a Christian country.. .. if the King chose to denounce Christ in favour of an illiterate Arab that his ancestors kept from our shores ..we are done for… truly scuppered.
Given more time, I would re-read all the small-print pages on Asoka, and not hesitate to plead to include him among the great and good monarchs. But a connection to English monarchy requires time travel and an ecumenical spirit way beyond what Elizabeth ever dreamed of. Perhaps what I wonder is whether there have been so few great and good monarchs (See Andree's comment) , that you might as well expand the list to include all the Indo-European great and good ones, and see how long that list is.
I will just listen to "Cathredal" (Crosby, Stills and Nash) again, and wonder whether I should remind us here that King Alfred did translate the first 50 Psalms into Old English. >>>>>> And there we go again: we credit King David (not English !) with writing many/most of the Psalms, but he was the great king who desired Bathsheba, and sent Uriah her husband out to die on the front lines, so that he could have her all to himself.
"Gored on the Norman gonfalon, the golden dragon died
.................
We shall not see the holy kings, ride down the Severn side."
(Chesterton on King Alfred, the White Horse, and as usual, a war against invaders.}
Wonderful read, thank you. My greatest/only hope for Canada is in the Kingdom of God, exemplified by his ways and the power of the Holy Spirit in his people, increasing "from sea to sea". Too many Christians who've followed a false eschatology have left the mountains where we are called to influence our society (govt, education, family, religion, arts & entertainment, and business). Now we find ourselves with a climate zealot for a PM and our schools full of progressive activist teachers leading our youth down an anti-human, anti-flourishing path with foolish ideologies. I look forward to your Part 4 essay very much, Dr. Christian.
The Great and Good Monarchs are too few and far in between to rely on this as is hoping for an Enlightened Tyrant. Too much power in the hands of a single person is usually detrimental to the many. I don't know that the flawed human nature can conceive better than flawed systems of governance, of education, of relations with other groups, of economics, etc. Unfortunately, power seems to attract a category of people that should not have power, and the majority is too naive to see it.
I am convinced that ultimately all people in power, including 'godly monarchs' no matter how much they start out with their moral compass in tact, will end up corrupt to some degree. There are too many competing interests to stay pure and moral in your dealings.
Interesting
Great comments y’all!
I too look forward to part 4
Well the problem now is our “protector of the faith” Charlie No 3 has switched sides and practices Islam … that as far as I am concerned..the end of Britain as a Christian country.. .. if the King chose to denounce Christ in favour of an illiterate Arab that his ancestors kept from our shores ..we are done for… truly scuppered.
Given more time, I would re-read all the small-print pages on Asoka, and not hesitate to plead to include him among the great and good monarchs. But a connection to English monarchy requires time travel and an ecumenical spirit way beyond what Elizabeth ever dreamed of. Perhaps what I wonder is whether there have been so few great and good monarchs (See Andree's comment) , that you might as well expand the list to include all the Indo-European great and good ones, and see how long that list is.
I will just listen to "Cathredal" (Crosby, Stills and Nash) again, and wonder whether I should remind us here that King Alfred did translate the first 50 Psalms into Old English. >>>>>> And there we go again: we credit King David (not English !) with writing many/most of the Psalms, but he was the great king who desired Bathsheba, and sent Uriah her husband out to die on the front lines, so that he could have her all to himself.
"Gored on the Norman gonfalon, the golden dragon died
.................
We shall not see the holy kings, ride down the Severn side."
(Chesterton on King Alfred, the White Horse, and as usual, a war against invaders.}