“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
“Besides the missionary theology cultivated by many churches, we also need a theology of extinction.” — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
It is also amazing to find just how religious and occult-minded some of the leading political and military players of the war… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“While nobody can pretend that Christian religious practice is thriving in most of Europe, the situation is nothing as grim as some… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
Religion appears in so many contexts in WW1. Religion shaped the national identities and ambitions of several of the key players, especially… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
. If you believe that your nation is divinely ordained to rule Europe, and you must struggle to establish its supremacy, is… — 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
“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
“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
“Though churches may lose political influence under Christian states or in predominantly Christian societies, though they might be secularized, they do not… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Deeply ingrained in the Christian tradition, as in the Jewish and Muslim faiths, is the concept of a God who intervenes in… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The key difference making for survival is rather how deep a church planted its roots in a particular community, and how far… — 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
“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
“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)
