Backgrounds Quote by Larry Hurtado

I think that Rodney Stark studies of new religious movements in the modern world give us some insights into the kinds of questions that…

— Larry Hurtado

I think that Rodney Stark puts his foot wrong on some things where he simply wasn't sufficiently current on scholarly developments.

— Larry Hurtado

“They had a place where they belonged, and, even if it was because he didn't want to deal with their being different, he didn't…

— Tina Fey

“He taught consistently, as we have seen, that the Spirit is given to believers; so how could he have asked his questions unless something…

— John R.W. Stott

“Many Christians with Ph.D.'s have simply absorbed a two-track approach to their subject, treating science or sociology or history as though it consisted of…

— Nancy Pearcey

“In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the…

— Joseph McCabe

“A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.”

— David D. Flowers

“It is essential to realize that the Christian community in the past was not a pious ideal, but a juridical fact which underlay the…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has…

— Dinesh D'Souza

“we must not forget that people came to Christ from every kind of background and that the early Christian community included more than a…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“The apologist can ask what literature and film reveal about the inchoate theological stirrings of our times.”

— Andrew Davison

“Interviewer: In terms of the wider mythology for your world, do we detect Christian influences? Pat: What it has is the archetype of the…

— Patrick Rothfuss