Do Not Disavow

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Do Not Disavow By: Rick Davis   When Charlemagne established law Salic in barb’rous land, The gospel flourished, and he saw Christ’s praise on every hand.   (“Do you approve his methods now?”) I do not disavow.   King Godfrey took Jerusalem From bloody paynim hands And brought a halt to Musselmen Invading Christian lands.   (“He did some mean things anyhow!”) I do not disavow.   King Richard with his scarlet shield And passant lions ‘bossed Rode forth again unto the field To regain what was lost.   (“His deeds at Acre you allow?”) I do not disavow.   Unto the Germans Luther brought The gospel full restored, And Calvin at Geneva taught The glory of the Lord.   (“The Jews? Servetus? Holy cow!”) I do not disavow.   Stonewall and Lee like knights of old Fought for their native soil, The true and lovely to uphold Against the tyrant’s spoil.   (“Those vile racists ...
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Reading St. Tully

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"Lactantius, known as the 'Christian Cicero', declared that in his treatises Cicero 'contributed a great deal of his own', and found On Duties adaptable to the needs of the Church; Ambrose's On the Duties of Ministers owes very much to the same source, and his Epistles deliberately imitate Ciceronian diction and form. For Jerome and Augustine Cicero symbolized the pagan culture whose vanities Christianity had rejected. Yet Jerome, in a dream, saw himself arraigned before the Seat of Judgment as more Ciceronian than Christian, and Augustine, though The City of God was written to oppose Cicero's conception of Providence, writes of his treatise the Hortensius: 'this book quite altered my affections, turned my prayers to thyself, O Lord.' At that decisive moment of transition from the ancient to the medieval world, the Fathers kept alive and transmitted, the classical philosophy that they had learnt from Cicero: whose works thus became an important ingredient in Christian doctrine and scholastic logic." Michael Grant in Cicero: Selected Works

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