Bible Quote by Alister E. McGrath

“The most 'authoritative' accounts of a historical Jesus come from the four canonical Gospels of the Bible. Note that these Gospels did not come…

— Frank Butcher

One canon reduced to writing by God himself, two testaments, three creeds, four general councils, five centuries, and the series of Fathers in that…

— Lancelot Andrewes

“The question of “canon and creed,” which underlies quite a bit of this book, has become quite urgent and controversial and needs to be…

— N.T. Wright

Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries.…

— Elaine Pagels

“So much had the gospel been spread abroad during this early period of the church that the apostle could speak of it going into…

— Robert L. Saucy

“For more than a thousand years this idea of the unity of Christendom, of Christendom as a sort of vast Amphictyony, whose members even…

— H.G. Wells

The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be…

— Thomas Paine

“The publication of the Gospel of Judas within Codex Tchacos represents a significant moment for the study of religion and culture. It is a…

— Marvin Meyer

“If there is a single fact which anyone who seriously studies the history of Christianity cannot help but be struck by, it is the…

— Savitri Devi

“In my mortal life, I saw mainly those texts that the church sanctioned--the gospels and the Orthodox commentary on them, for example. These works…

— Elizabeth Kostova

For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the…

— Elaine Pagels

“In short, an astonishingly broad spectrum of theologies of justification existed in the later medieval period, encompassing practically every option that had not been…

— Alister E. McGrath