The Vision and Mission

of the ArchAngel Institute

A rebirth of Christian chivalry that advances the Culture of Life by encouraging, empowering and emboldening Christians to cherish, defend and advance faith, family and freedom.

What does the ArchAngel Institute mean by “Christian Chivalry?”

The Short Answer:

The Broad-Stone of Honour (authored by Kenelm Henry Digby in 1822) helped re-image chivalry in a challenging post-Revolutionary (but pre-modern) age. That influential work offered the following definition: “Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or state of mind which disposes men to heroic actions, and keeps them conversant with all that is beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world.”

Notice the crucial balance: right thoughts and honorable actions.

Lord Alfred Tennyson, in Idylls of the King (1872), reduced the definition to these four simple instructions:

“Live pure,

speak true,

right wrong,

follow Christ the King.”

Please note that the first and last address the right thoughts about life, the second and third address honorable actions. The line that Tennyson penned after these four attributes is of great interest:

“Else, wherefore born?”

When the Institute references Christian chivalry, it means the idea balancing of the historic doctrines of the faith and the general expression of the same in one’s personal life in a fashion calculated to maximize impact upon the social order.

It is the balancing of our precious freedom in Christ with our duties to the Almighty and each other. When this balancing occurs in a family, in a community or in society-at-large, the result is Christian chivalry. When Christian chivalry is waning the result is social decay and chaos. When Christian chivalry is on the increase the result is renewal, rebirth, reformation, revival – and even revolution

This is idealistic, yes, but that does not render it something we should not pursue with great zeal.

For more on the philosophical underpinnings of this vision and mission, please click on “mission criticals” above.

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