Jaraslov Pelikan

Social reality is malleable. How it is depends upon how it is perceived; and how it is perceived depends upon how it is described. Hence language is an important instrument in modern politics, and many of the political conflicts in our time are conflicts over words. Perhaps the most obvious instance of this is provided by Soviet-style communism, and the invention of the language that we know, thanks to Orwell’s 1984, as Newspeak.

By Dr. Matthew Umbarger • 29 May, 2019 SIR ISAAC Newton was unquestionably one of the most brilliant minds England produced, but that did not make him a great biblical interpreter. He spends the bulk of his treatise on the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation attempting to prove that the acquiring of temporal power by the bishop of Rome in the ninth century and following was indisputable proof that the Pope was none other than the antichrist foretold in these Scriptures.