About Quote by Neil MacGregor

If the Savior had come back to earth at the beginning of the fifth century A.D., I doubt whether he would have recognized the…

— Milton R. Hunter

In Destroyer of the gods I focus on several major features of early Christianity that made it distinctive, even odd or bizarre .We don't…

— Larry Hurtado

But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present…

— Leo Tolstoy

The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in the very…

— Lucy Larcom

People are always talking about the first church. The real first church was that gaggle of people who followed Jesus around. We don't know…

— Wendell Berry

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the…

— Randall Terry

The church had to find a way to protect Jesus' perfection so that he could do the work of salvation which, in their frame…

— John Shelby Spong

“WE HAVE SEEN THAT those holding adoptionist views of Christ claimed to represent the earliest views of Jesus’s own apostles .. Docetic views, when…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“The church did not exist in Old Testament times. Matthew 16:18 cites Jesus saying that He would build His church. This indicates that the…

— Ron Rhodes

Beyond the earliest days of the religion, early Christians were believers because they'd been converted, not because they were witnesses to supernatural events, just…

— Robert B. Seidensticker

The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and…

— Timothy Keller

“Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups of…

— Dillon Burroughs