{"product_id":"the-white-horse-king-the-life-of-alfred-the-great","title":"The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe unlikely king who saved England.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDown swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers, monks, and soldiers all fell bloody under the Viking sword, hammer, and axe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen, when the hour was most desperate, came an unlikely hero. King Alfred rallied the battered and bedraggled kingdoms of Britain and after decades of plotting, praying, and persisting, finally triumphed over the invaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlfred's victory reverberates to this day: He sparked a literary renaissance, restructured Britain's roadways, revised the legal codes, and revived Christian learning and worship. It was Alfred's accomplishments that laid the groundwork for Britian's later glories and triumphs in literature, liturgy, and liberty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e\u003c!--\ntd {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Ben Merkle tells the sort of mythic adventure story that stirs the imagination and races the heart?and all the more so knowing that it is altogether true!\" \u003cstrong\u003e-George Grant, pastor and author in Franklin, Tennessee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"\\\"When a husband has been chronically unfaithful to his wife, to say that he remains a husband is not to approve of his infidelity. It is the basis of the disapproval. Perhaps his wife should divorce him, but, until she does, he is a husband. No one would look at the pattern of his adulteries, and then say, “Oh, well, at least he is married.” The fact that he is married compounds the sin, and in no way lessens it. In the same way, for an overt unbeliever to deny the deity of Jesus Christ is a great sin. But it is a worse sin for a baptized believer to do so, and for an ordained minister to reject the gospel in this way is far worse still. Such treachery should make us angrier; the fact that additional covenantal vows were broken ameliorates nothing.\\nBranches in Christ that bear much fruit are pruned and blessed. Do they have communion with those branches that bear no fruit, and which will be cut off and burned? They do not have a common future, but they do have a common present place on the same vine. To change the image slightly, together they partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree. And this means that true ecumenical dialogue with unfaithful Christians should consist of solemn warnings.\\nAt the same time, we should see that our disapproval of fellow covenant members is an objective disapproval. We no longer disapprove because their “lack of regeneration” has been weighed in the balances of our discernment and been found wanting.\\\" ~ from the book\"}' data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":769,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":4,\"12\":0}'\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"\\\"When a husband has been chronically unfaithful to his wife, to say that he remains a husband is not to approve of his infidelity. It is the basis of the disapproval. Perhaps his wife should divorce him, but, until she does, he is a husband. No one would look at the pattern of his adulteries, and then say, “Oh, well, at least he is married.” The fact that he is married compounds the sin, and in no way lessens it. In the same way, for an overt unbeliever to deny the deity of Jesus Christ is a great sin. But it is a worse sin for a baptized believer to do so, and for an ordained minister to reject the gospel in this way is far worse still. Such treachery should make us angrier; the fact that additional covenantal vows were broken ameliorates nothing.\\nBranches in Christ that bear much fruit are pruned and blessed. Do they have communion with those branches that bear no fruit, and which will be cut off and burned? They do not have a common future, but they do have a common present place on the same vine. To change the image slightly, together they partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree. And this means that true ecumenical dialogue with unfaithful Christians should consist of solemn warnings.\\nAt the same time, we should see that our disapproval of fellow covenant members is an objective disapproval. We no longer disapprove because their “lack of regeneration” has been weighed in the balances of our discernment and been found wanting.\\\" ~ from the book\"}' data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":769,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":4,\"12\":0}'\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr. Ben Merkle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis president of New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. He has both a Master's and Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University. His dissertation, \u003cem\u003eDefending the Trinity in the Reformed Palatinate\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Oxford University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0154\/4706\/4624\/files\/B-105.pdf?2719\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eAUTHOR: Ben Merkle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ePUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePAGE COUNT: 272 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSIZE: 5.50x8.20\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBINDING: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 10: 1595552529\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781595552525\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePUB. 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