American life Quote by Paul Vitz

“Protestantism has been that it gave a self-righteous oomph to moneymaking and capitalism—hard work accrues to God’s glory, success looks like a sign of…

— Kurt Andersen

“THE BIG PIECE of secular conventional wisdom about Protestantism has been that it gave a self-righteous oomph to moneymaking and capitalism—hard work accrues to…

— Kurt Andersen

“the history of Protestantism is very great. It presents like no other of Luther's writings the central thought of Christianity, the justification of the…

— Martin Luther

The protestant world is in great need of examples (like these) that will beckon us to the fullness of God.

— Mike Bickle

“The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals”

— Sunday Adelaja

Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious…

— Fareed Zakaria

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for…

— Walter Russell Mead

“There is an additional and compelling question that probably also will go unaddressed: what is a Protestant? In this brief Introduction I will demonstrate…

— Rodney Stark

“It is as if Protestantism by clinging to the Scripture wished to preserve the last faint echoes of God’s Word in a world that…

— Hermann Broch

Protestantism includes every type of religious thought and organization from 'high church' Anglicanism to high-principled Quakerism, from ecstatic Methodism to relentlessly intellectual Unitarism. Only…

— Lewis Browne

“there is at least as much, and probably much more, variation on these matters among the Protestants of various types included in these merged…

— Rodney Stark

“Sound Protestant and Evangelical doctrine is useless — if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse then useless; it does…

— J.C. Ryle