The Templar Paradigm – Part 1

Why should a Christian be interested in the Templars let alone inspired by them?

My interest in the Templars goes back to my middle school days, when my Dad picked up a book from the Barnes & Noble bargain bin called simply The Knights Templar (by Stephen Howarth).

In more recent years, I have come to appreciate the Templars as more than just Christendom's commissioned “avengers” from the Middle Ages. The more I have read, the more I have discerned that they are worthy of imitation—not militarily per se, because we live in quite a different epoch, but in terms of being exemplar Christians in their genuine piousness and committed prayer life. In particular, how they brought this life of composed Christian meditation into their vocations as fierce and elite soldiers contending with the medieval enemies of Christ and his Kingdom.

In this light, I have turned my study of them into a paradigm for applying the principles of Christianity in the spirit of what St James writes: be doers of the Word, not hearers only. Initially I meant this for myself and others who might be interested. But then Rev. Fisk's 'Sons of Solomon' discipline provided a setting where such a paradigm might find a wider salutary use towards developing one's martial prowess on the spiritual battlefield of the Cosmic War in which the Church Militant is engaged, based on the revelation of Scripture from Genesis through Revelation.

The paradigm comes in sections. The episodes in this limited series will be an overview of the sections, ahead of a longer-form podcast starting later this summer that will unpack what I will cover in this series in much greater detail and depth.

Welcome to The Templar Paradigm—The Survey Series...

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