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By Tod Worner, Catholic World Report, Jan. 29, 2024

Tod Worner is a practicing internal medicine physician, serves as Managing Editor of Evangelization & Culture, the Journal of the Word on Fire Institute, and hosts The Evangelization & Culture Podcast.

 

God’s power turns everything on its head. It confuses. It disorients. And then, with faithful eyes, it exhilarates.

Recently, in search of another penetrating perspective on the origins of the First World War, I happened upon a lecture by historian Christopher Clark on power. Having explored the nature of power in his insightful and witty manner, Clark dove deep into the Biblical book of Daniel.

King Nebuchadnezzar was troubled by a dream. Summoning his magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and Chaldeans (Clark, incidentally, jests that whenever the pagan kings are seeking advice, the mercurial Chaldeans are, for some reason, always there to help), he asks—without divulging—the nature of his dream and what it means. Caught flatfooted, his advisors insist it is impossible for a man to interpret a dream without first knowing what happened in it. …

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