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> [“Deeply ingrained in the Christian tradition, as in the Jewish and Muslim faiths, is the concept of a God who intervenes in history, through many and diverse ways. In the Bible, we hear of God guiding history through determining the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/deeply-ingrained-in-the-christian-tradition-as-in-the-jewish-and/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

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## More by Philip Jenkins

> [“Yet even when such languages did not face direct official sanction, speakers of older tongues knew that they had little chance of getting on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/yet-even-when-such-languages-did-not-face-direct-official-sanction/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

> [“Christianity offers similar stories, and the global Christianity that perished in the late Middle Ages has revived in the past century. China offers an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/christianity-offers-similar-stories-and-the-global-christianity-that/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

> [“Where the African church failed was in not carrying Christianity beyond the Romanized inhabitants of the cities and the great estates, and not sinking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/where-the-african-church-failed-was-in-not-carrying-christianity/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

> [“Christians believe that God speaks through history; and only by knowing that history can we hope to interpret momentous events like the Japanese persecutions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/christians-believe-that-god-speaks-through-history-and-only-by/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

> [“Perhaps theological attempts to explain the destruction of churches or of “Christian nations” are asking the wrong question, if they judge success and failure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/perhaps-theological-attempts-to-explain-the-destruction-of-churches/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

> [“Another difficulty with the reservation scheme was that it reinforced the popular association of Christianity with foreign imperialism, and thus with enmity to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/another-difficulty-with-the-reservation-scheme-was-that-it-reinforced/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

> [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/far-from-anti-christian-purges-ceasing-with-the-official-end-of-war/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

> [“Middle Eastern Christians, in short, tried every possible tactic to survive and flourish, and their efforts have largely failed. Partly, this is a matter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/middle-eastern-christians-in-short-tried-every-possible-tactic-to/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

> [“Besides the missionary theology cultivated by many churches, we also need a theology of extinction.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/besides-the-missionary-theology-cultivated-by-many-churches-we-also/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

> [“Our accepted chronology of the ancient church is wrong: ancient Semitic Christianity dies out not in the fourth century, but in the fourteenth.8”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/our-accepted-chronology-of-the-ancient-church-is-wrong-ancient/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

> [“Christianity in this region remained as much a colonists’ religion as it would be once again during the French Empire of the twentieth century,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/christianity-in-this-region-remained-as-much-a-colonists-religion-as/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

> [“Any acquaintance with recent history made nonsense of any claim that God was on the side of Christian states. As one scholar suggests, what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/any-acquaintance-with-recent-history-made-nonsense-of-any-claim-that/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

> [“For much of the history of Islam, moreover, the Christian world was not noticeably ahead in political or economic power, or in culture. When…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/for-much-of-the-history-of-islam-moreover-the-christian-world-was-not/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

> [“While nobody can pretend that Christian religious practice is thriving in most of Europe, the situation is nothing as grim as some recent accounts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/while-nobody-can-pretend-that-christian-religious-practice-is/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

> [Religion appears in so many contexts in WW1. Religion shaped the national identities and ambitions of several of the key players, especially Germany and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/religion-appears-in-so-many-contexts-in-ww1-religion-shaped-the/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

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