Quotes

“There are those who see no meaning in history whatsoever. They see it in terms of Joseph Heller’s graphic description, ‘a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind’. But there have been others – notably Tolstoy in War and Peace – who believed that beneath the surface of events a larger plan was unfolding, of which the participants in history were unaware. The Prophets believed history was a drama about redemption. For Christians it was about salvation. For the heroes of the Enlightenment it was a narrative of progress. These are not disagreements about the facts of history. They are disagreements about the interpretation of the facts of history.”

The Great Partnership, Chapter 1, p. 31