A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven: An Exploration of Sacred History - Paperback

by James D. Heiser (Author)

What is history? For many post-modern men-maltreated and miseducated by substandard pseudo-educators in the holding pens which society calls "public schools"-history is just a string of disassociated events which reduces to a catalog of 'one blasted thing after another.' Taught to avoid any awareness of a transcendent significance associated with any event and to simply become immersed in fleeting concerns, the cultivated ignorance of history has partially blinded its victims to the reality which surrounds them from before the moment of birth.

In an age when the value of life is measured only by the perception of personal material affluence, the most fundamental needs of human beings have been woefully neglected.
Ours is a dark age, in the proper sense of the concept. It is an age in which those who claim to know are often the most ignorant-ignorant of the sacred history which undergirds the history of the race-and thus men are ignorant of who they are, when they are, and where they are.
An awareness of the darkness of the present age offers the possibility of repentance, and a return to a civilization worthy of the term.

Author Biography

James D. Heiser is the Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America (ELDoNA) and Pastor of Salem Lutheran Church (Malone, Texas). He also serves as Dean of Missions for The Augustana Ministerium and as a member both of the Board of Directors and Steering Committee of The Mars Society.
Heiser earned his B.A.-Political Science at George Washington University (Washington, D.C.) and his M.Div. and S.T.M. from Concordia Theological Seminary (Fort Wayne, Indiana).
Heiser is the author of seven books: one recounting the course of the Hermetic Reformation (Prisci Theologi and the Hermetic Reformation in the Fifteenth Century), one evaluating the post-Modern ideology of Russian extremist Aleksandr Dugin ("The American Empire Should be Destroyed"-Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology), a collection of essays concerning the Office of the Holy Ministry (Stewards of the Mysteries of God), two books of essays pertaining to space exploration and theology (A Shining City on a Higher Hill and Civilization and the New Frontier) and two books on the crises of the Modern age (A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven and The One True God, the Two Estates and the Three Kingdoms). He is also the author of hundreds of published articles.