Episode 15: Muddled Thinking - A Consideration of the Christian Crusades

What do you think of when you hear the word “Crusades?” Do you think of knights with big red crosses across their chests or the senseless killing in the name of the Cross of Christ? By the way, except for many of those doing the fighting, the Crusades were not about the Cross of Christ. We will also talk a little about the science of soteriology, which studies the doctrine of salvation as well as the importance of the Book of Genesis in God’s plan of salvation. BIBLIOGRAPHY Baker, Robert Andrew. A Summary of Christian History. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1959. Charanis, Peter. “Aims of the Medieval Crusades and How They Were Viewed by Byzantium.” Church History; Chicago, etc. 21, no. 2 (January 1, 1952): 123–134. Accessed March 9, 2018. https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/docview/1290127531/citation/7C5084BF301B42A4PQ/1. Chevedden, Paul E. “Crusade Creationism versus Pope Urban II’s Conceptualization of the Crusades.” Historian 75, no. 1 (March 1, 2013): 1–46. Accessed March 6, 2018. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/doi/10.1111/hisn.12000/abstract. Chevedden, Paul E. “The Islamic Interpretation of the Crusade: A New (Old) Paradigm for Understanding the Crusades.” Der Islam; Berlin 83, no. 1 (2006): 90–136. Accessed March 6, 2018. https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/docview/230125969/abstract/9F0CB125ABF94690PQ/1. Galvin, Doctor James C., “Book Outlines (all),” Life Application Study Bible, King James Version, Gen Ed. Ronald A, Beers, Carol Stream, IL, Tyndale House Publishers, 2007 Housley, Norman. “The Crusades and Islam.” Medieval Encounters 13, no. 2 (July 2007): 189–208. http://ezproxy.liberty.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=25638150&site=ehost-live&scope=site. Keathley, Kenneth. Ch. 12. A Theology for the Church. Edited by Daniel L. Akin. Revised ed. Nashville, Tennessee: B&H Publisher, 2014. Menken, Maarten J.J., and Steve Moyise, eds. 2013. Genesis in the New Testament. London, GB: Bloomsbury T&T Clark. Accessed May 7, 2016. ProQuest ebrary. Stanley, Charles F., The Glorious Journey (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, Inc. Publishers, 1996), Page X Winslow, Mark W., John R. Staver, and Lawrence C. Scharmann. 2011. “Evolution and Personal Religious Belief: Christian University Biology‐related Majors’ Search for Reconciliation.” Journal of Research in Science Teaching 48 (9): 1026–49. doi:10.1002/tea.20417.