Christendom Quote by Gustavo Gutiérrez

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

Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind.

— Edward Hicks

“Apart from the museums that anchor the great cities of Europe and America, the Roman Catholic Church is what remains of "Christendom," the generating…

— James Carroll

Christendom, as an effect, must be accounted for. It is too large for a mortal cause.

— Frederic Dan Huntington

“The Christian church is an encyclopaedia of prehistoric cults and conceptions of the most diverse orgiin and that is why it is so capable…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“In post-Christendom, the church is that community of people who look to discover what God is actively doing in the world around them and…

— Tim Keel

“It is solely the form of Christ that matters, not any form besides Christ’s own. The church is the human being who has become…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to…

— Lesslie Newbigin

Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us.

— Tony Campolo

We know the Church wasn't born 200 years ago. It's encouraging to see some of the post-denominational churches actually wanting to reconnect with the…

— Shane Claiborne