Early-church Quote by David D. Flowers

“The resurrection of Jesus is not to be understood in good liberal fashion as a spiritual development in the church. Nor should it be…

— Walter Brueggemann

“The faithful have no dread of using the traditional language of the church. Terms like incarnation and resurrection need to be explained, not avoided.”

— Thomas C. Oden

“By the time these stories were written, six decades had passed since the crucifixion. In that time, the evangelists had heard just about every…

— Reza Aslan

“The resurrection produces a “conversion of the imagination” that causes us to understand everything else differently.”

— Ellen F. Davis

“the Christian faith, while wildly misrepresented in so much of American culture, is really about death and resurrection. It’s about how God continues to…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“The Resurrection revealed a defined God who resist violence with powerful nonviolence and refuses to allow death to keep its grip on His child.…

— Megan McKenna

“When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.”

— F.H. Bradley

“I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds.”

— Lucy N. Colman

“Even if the church began to grow on its own, the members of the dying church would only accept the growth if the new…

— Thom S. Rainer

“For Christians, then, Christ’s justification, given with his resurrection, becomes theirs.”

— Richard B. Jr. Gaffin

“Good reputation and growth doesn´t mean to God that the church is alive.”

— Alin Sav

“The Church was not left in this world to perfume the dung-heap of fallen humanity, but to take out, one by one, those who…

— Anonymous