“On the contrary, said Paul, if they really have accepted Christ by faith, they have accepted the way of Christ and the mind of Christ. The man who really loves God can do as he chooses, for if he really… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
“Church historians often ask, ‘Is the church a movement or an institution?' . . . I think it is both. . . . I… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
“In a sense the rise of Anabaptism was no surprise. Most revolutionary movements produce a wing of radicals who feel called of God to reform the reformation. And that is what Anabaptism was, a voice calling the moderate reformers to strike even more deeply at the foundations of the old order. Like most counterculture movements, the Anabaptists lacked cohesiveness. No… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share
“Reason, said Butler, provides no complete system of knowledge, and in ordinary life it can offer us only probabilities.” — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
Fortunately, Judge Richey's decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is an example of how far the purge of Christian values… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
“If we see some admirable work of human art, we are at once eager to investigate the nature, the manner, the end of its… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs,… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, said Paul, if they really have accepted Christ by faith, they have accepted the way of Christ and the mind of… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
