The Crusades
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
As the centuries progressed, some people began to think it was legitimate to use force to advance the church and the Christian cause. Today, W. Robert Godfrey offers insights on the Crusades, one of church history's most dramatic periods.
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| 0:00.0 | Crusade was a French word that meant the way of the cross. |
| 0:03.0 | They saw themselves sacrificing themselves as Jesus had, |
| 0:08.0 | taking up a cross, taking up self-denial to recapture the Holy City |
| 0:12.0 | for an eschatological purpose. |
| 0:17.0 | The Crusades, if you have had in-depth conversations with an atheist, you have likely |
| 0:27.1 | had this topic come up, presented as a reason why the church, the Christian faith, cannot |
| 0:32.2 | be believed and trusted. So what should we think about |
| 0:35.8 | the Crusades? How do we respond? And what really happened? This is the Tuesday edition of renewing Your Mind. I'm your host, Nathan W Bingham. |
| 0:47.0 | Yesterday, you heard a message from part one of W Robert Godfrey's six-part study series on Church History. |
| 0:54.8 | Today we fast forward to the Middle Ages, |
| 0:57.8 | the era that part two of his series covers, |
| 1:00.8 | and you can add this 13 message installment to your church history collection |
| 1:05.0 | when you give a gift of any amount at renewing or mind.org. |
| 1:09.0 | And because we'll have a new installment and offer each day this week, if you miss one, please call us at 800, |
| 1:15.9 | 435, 4343, and we'll be able to help you. |
| 1:20.9 | What motivated the Crusaders? What gave rise to this violent time in church history? |
| 1:26.0 | Well, here's Dr Godfrey with an overview of the Crusades. |
| 1:32.0 | We're looking at the broad theme of church and society and we come to one of the most well |
| 1:39.8 | known and controversial elements of medieval experience, and that is the Crusades. |
| 1:47.2 | What were the Crusades? |
| 1:48.9 | What was the importance of the Crusades? |
| 1:50.7 | Why were there Crusades? It's interesting that as famous as the episode of |
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