I’ve been reading through the volume edited by SEBTS president, Danny Akin, A Theology for the Church.  It’s not all easy reading, but it is interesting.

Writing in a section on, “The Doctrine of Revelation,” Greg Alan Thornbury makes the point that, “[The] notion that freedom accompanies the discovery of truth is what has made Christianity the singularly most powerful worldview in the history of the world.”

In so doing he gives this intriguing tidbit from Albert Einstein:

Being a lover of freedom, when the [Nazi] revolution came, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the universities were immediately silenced.  Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks. . . .

Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s Campaign for suppressing truth.  I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration for it because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual and moral freedom.  I am forced to confess that what i once despised I now praise unreservedly.