James Jordan’s essay entitled Crisis, Opportunity, and the Christian Future is proof that the Bible provides its own framework to understand biblical structure and structures of civilizations. The Bible is its own best interpreter. It provides patterns and visions of what a biblical society must look like. It provides the “how nots”and the “how to’s” of a functioning society. The point is that only the biblical data serves as the foundation to any model of the future. Crises are not the defeat of a society, but rather the proper opportunity for a Christian future. New cycles refine old cycles and clean the gnostic, platonic remains of previous cycles.
