Century Quote by George Coyne

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

— Bryan Magee

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual…

— Alan Hirsch

The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and with rationalism…

— Robert E. Webber

“In the West, the great problem that was created for Christianity from the 17th century onward and even earlier during the Renaissance was that…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of Christianity -that…

— David Bentley Hart

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.

— Tycho Brahe

For decades the popular notion has been that if the church was going to reach the culture it first needed to connect with the…

— John MacArthur

“You are afraid, just as the people of the Vatican were afraid to accept the Copernican theory. Not even they believed in the infallibility…

— Haruki Murakami

Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture…

— John Stott

The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed… Mankind…

— D. H. Lawrence

“the church’s growth; it is life in “the way of Christ,” distinctive and hopeful. Christians, as Cyprian knew well, were growing in numbers because…

— Alan Kreider