Backgrounds Quote by Kenneth Scott Latourette

Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an institution, it…

— Paul Smith

Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity…

— Camille Paglia

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

— Alan Hirsch

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

— Alexander Schmemann

“What Christians see, or claim to see, in Genesis 1-3 changed as the church itself changed from a dissident Jewish sect to a popular…

— Elaine Pagels

What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the…

— Albert Schweitzer

Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

“Christianity was birthed in Galilee as a relationship. It spread to Greece and became a philosophy. It spread to Rome and became an empire.…

— Chuck Miller

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples…

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

“The disasters of the late Middle Ages tore Christianity from its roots—cultural, geographical, and linguistic. This “uprooting” created the Christianity that we commonly think…

— Philip Jenkins

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary

— Walter Rauschenbusch

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.

— Yann Martel