The Christian Renaissance of 1294 to1620

and its Re-Birth Today

By: Robert Ingraham

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A great change is coming over our country. It is the beginning of a new Christian Renaissance. A divine force is working through us, and we are regenerating Western Christian Civilization, which had virtually been lost since 1900. Rather than simply rediscovering the past, we are regenerating it anew in the course of making new discoveries in science, in art, and even in Christianity itself.. This is where we come from. We, our country, are products of the Christian Renaissance of half a millennium ago. This impulse has waned—it was almost lost. But we are regenerating it today. We stand at a moment when a new era of human civilization beckons. We stand with Dante in 1294, with Groote in 1374, with the Pilgrims in 1620, with our Founding Fathers in 1776.

For much of my life, I accepted the proposition that the Renaissance, as it emerged in Florence and other locations, was a product of “the revival of Ancient Learning,” in particular the translations of Plato which became available in the 15th century, together with many other classical works from Greece and Rome. The narrative went that superstitious medieval Europe, in the wake of the nightmare of the Black Death, was rescued and transformed by the ancient philosophical and artistic wisdom of Greece and Rome.

Over time, I came to question and ultimately reject that view. This began with an intensive study of the life and writings of Dante Alighieri, studies which convinced me that it was Dante, more than any other influence, who set into motion what emerged in the Renaissance. This led to a conclusion that the revival of Platonic and other Greek studies was largely a product, not a primary cause, of the Renaissance; nor was it the generative feature of that Renaissance.

The Renaissance was a powerful rebirth of Christianity and in some ways the apex of the concepts of Man in the Image of God (Imago Dei) and Man as a partaker in God’s creation (Capex Dei), and that this rebirth stands in opposition to the empiricism, materialism and atheism of what came later in the so-called “Enlightenment.”

This realization has powerful and far-reaching implications for the battle of today, as we fight to restore the Constitutional intention of the American Republic.

We begin our tale in the year 1294, the year that Dante wrote La Vita Nuova, and we conclude with the sailing of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower, in 1620, as they embarked on their journey to establish a revolutionary society in the New World.