History Quotes 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Philip Jenkins

“Besides the missionary theology cultivated by many churches, we also need a theology of extinction.”

— 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”

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Philip Jenkins