I think that Rodney Stark studies of new religious…

I think Rodney Stark makes a substantial contribution to the study of early Christianity in posing the kinds of questions that he pursues (which…

— Larry Hurtado

I offer early Christianity as a case-study to show that the phenomena that we group under "religion(s)" comprise a somewhat artificial category, and that…

— Larry Hurtado

Galen's observations reflect one of the distinctive features of early Christianity. Roman-era religion was mainly about ritual actions vis-à-vis the gods, and there was…

— Larry Hurtado

Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

— Larry Hurtado

In Destroyer of the gods I focus on several major features of early Christianity that made it distinctive, even odd or bizarre .We don't…

— Larry Hurtado

Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a…

— N. T. Wright

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

— Christopher Lasch

I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of…

— Anonymous

Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the…

— Frederick Lenz

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

— Joseph Cook

“They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in…

— Margaret Atwood

True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.

— Sun Myung Moon

Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the spread…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Protestant churches everywhere are gravitating toward union with the Roman Catholic Church. These religious movements are speeding the fulfillment of the prophecies of the…

— Herbert W. Armstrong

Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What is the…

— Elaine Pagels