“In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.” — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Another difficulty with the reservation scheme was that it reinforced the popular association of Christianity with foreign imperialism, and thus with enmity… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Christianity offers similar stories, and the global Christianity that perished in the late Middle Ages has revived in the past century. China… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Even when Coptic itself gave way to Arabic, Christianity was too thoroughly naturalized to vanish without a lengthy struggle. Not all the… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Looking at the sweep of Christian history, we are often reminded of this message of the transience of human affairs, and, based… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“As a Muslim author crowed a few years afterward, Christianity was self-evidently the religion of losers: “[Islam] has blotted out their strong… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The disasters of the late Middle Ages tore Christianity from its roots—cultural, geographical, and linguistic. This “uprooting” created the Christianity that we… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Any acquaintance with recent history made nonsense of any claim that God was on the side of Christian states. As one scholar… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The violence that began in 1915 killed perhaps half the Armenian Christians in the region. Although the accumulated stories of massacre numb… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“At the time, I thought my colleague’s views sounded absurdly legalistic: if Christianity had lost all its living and breathing followers in… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Some of the reasons that a modern observer might identify for the church’s decline need not necessarily have been fatal. Over the… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Christians believe that God speaks through history; and only by knowing that history can we hope to interpret momentous events like the… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Christianity in this region remained as much a colonists’ religion as it would be once again during the French Empire of the… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Where the African church failed was in not carrying Christianity beyond the Romanized inhabitants of the cities and the great estates, and… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Middle Eastern Christians, in short, tried every possible tactic to survive and flourish, and their efforts have largely failed. Partly, this is… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Worldly success was a potent force in the growth of Islam, and in the shriveling of Christianity. That fact may be troubling… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Contemplating the extinction of Christian communities, others might also be moved to consider profound issues of meaning, which recall the agonized dilemmas… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Language was critically important to the religious transition. The rise of Islam meant not just the eclipse of Christianity but the near… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Perhaps theological attempts to explain the destruction of churches or of “Christian nations” are asking the wrong question, if they judge success… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“East, Christian communities vanished one after the other, like lights being switched off. Before 1914, Christian pockets were numerous and widespread, while… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“A religion that dies in one area, in the sense of having no known active followers, may have many covert or clandestine… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Other Christian communities reported horrendous losses from similar events. Lord Bryce alleged that the Turkish government was pursuing a “plan for exterminating… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The Christian impact on Islam was profound, and can be traced at the deepest roots of that faith. Mosques look as they… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“But how then to explain the failures? What if Christians do make disciples of all nations, but subsequently lose them or their… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The more we study the catastrophes and endings that befell individual churches in particular eras, the better we appreciate the surprising new… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“In ninth-century Mesopotamia, Muslim exclusivist al-Jahiz denounced the Christians not just for their worldly success, but for their immersion in Arabic culture,… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“One measure of the Coptic achievement is the Life of Saint Antony, who was born around 270 and who became the founder… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Since the 1920s, the much-reduced Christian populations have tried various strategies to maintain their existence, but none shows great hopes of success.41… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Yet even when such languages did not face direct official sanction, speakers of older tongues knew that they had little chance of getting on… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Christianity offers similar stories, and the global Christianity that perished in the late Middle Ages has revived in the past century. China offers an… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Where the African church failed was in not carrying Christianity beyond the Romanized inhabitants of the cities and the great estates, and not sinking… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Christians believe that God speaks through history; and only by knowing that history can we hope to interpret momentous events like the Japanese persecutions… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Perhaps theological attempts to explain the destruction of churches or of “Christian nations” are asking the wrong question, if they judge success and failure… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Another difficulty with the reservation scheme was that it reinforced the popular association of Christianity with foreign imperialism, and thus with enmity to the… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Far from anti-Christian purges ceasing with the official end of war in 1918, they actually intensified during the ensuing war between Greece and Turkey.… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Middle Eastern Christians, in short, tried every possible tactic to survive and flourish, and their efforts have largely failed. Partly, this is a matter… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Besides the missionary theology cultivated by many churches, we also need a theology of extinction.” — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Our accepted chronology of the ancient church is wrong: ancient Semitic Christianity dies out not in the fourth century, but in the fourteenth.8” — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Christianity in this region remained as much a colonists’ religion as it would be once again during the French Empire of the twentieth century,… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Any acquaintance with recent history made nonsense of any claim that God was on the side of Christian states. As one scholar suggests, what… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
![“As a Muslim author crowed a few years afterward, Christianity was self-evidently the religion of losers: “[Islam] has blotted out their strong and well defended kingdoms, and their lofty and towering fortifications, and has turned them into refugees in hiding.” When Latin Christians invited Kublai…” quote by Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a14/philip-jenkins-10529_books_as-a-muslim-author-crowed-a-few-years-af_2250746.jpg)
