The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.

Foxe's Book of Martyrs


I started reading this a little while ago and finished it the other day. I am glad to have read it as it is a real classic. The edition I used is in a series of Chritian classics by Hendrickson. The one prolem is that this is an abridgement and I seem unable to find an authentic unabridged version anywhere online. What I have read is as gruesome as people say it is. At one point it seemed as though the persecutors were trying to find evermore crue ways to kill people. One admires the martyrs, although on occassion one wonders if more coud have been done to preserve life. What an issue persecution is. Strangely its existence appears to back up the truth claims of Christianity,

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