Guest post by The Reverend David R. Graham, A.M.D.G….
Academe is ever trying to distinguish or even separate itself from The Church (ecclesia). This is like the brain trying to separate from the heart or the clouds from the ocean.
Plato tried to go it without Delphi. Pharisees without Jesus the Christ. Plotinus without Origen. Abelard without Bruno. The Friars at Bologna without Francis or Anthony. Erasmus without Luther. Rousseau without Pascal or Guyon. Oxford without Newman. Union and Harvard without Tillich. New Harmony without Graham.
It doesn’t work. It can’t work. It won’t work.
