18th century Quote by Linda Colley

“The Trinity is not a doctrinal innovation but constitutes an explanation of the God whom Christians experienced in proclamation, worship, fellowship, communal meals, and…

— Michael F. Bird

“The Theology of The Holy Trinity has been well established for 1700 years. In my opinion, it is hyper-evident by the New Testament manuscripts…

— R. Alan Woods

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

— William Rees-Mogg

We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the Christian era,…

— Samuel Sharpe

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

— M. H. Abrams

“earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to…

— Charles Dickens

Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth century; a…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the…

— Susan Brigden

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now…

— John Adams

It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted…

— Christopher Bailey

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

— Richard Flanagan

I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson