Books Quote by Philip Jenkins

“In trying to understand the death of churches, several possible explanations come to mind, some much less convincing to modern ears than others. Throughout…

— Philip Jenkins

“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to…

— Steven Pinker

“Every Christian who studies history can only grieve over the atrocities that have been committed in the name of God by people who refuse…

— Berit Kjos

“...our pilgrimage among house churches in persecution convinced us that God may actually want to use them to save us from the often debilitating,…

— Nik Ripkin

“Perhaps theological attempts to explain the destruction of churches or of “Christian nations” are asking the wrong question, if they judge success and failure…

— Philip Jenkins

“Some pinned the blame on the corruption of the Church, believing that the divine institution's fall from grace had tainted their pleas and prayers…

— Charles River Editors

“While we may lament the loss we experience in Western Christianity, we should acknowledge that it may be God’s will that oppressive Western systems…

— Soong-Chan Rah

“If we are allowed to interpret African history through the lenses of Africans, what we see and understand is that Christianity is misused and…

— Alemayehu Mekonnen

“There are a great many ways in which, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts…

— Bertrand Russell

“By their peculiar “reasoning,” too, theologians have sanctioned most of the ills of the ages. They justified the Inquisition, serfdom, and slavery. Theologians of…

— Carter G. Woodson

“If it were not for the Church of Christ there would be nothing to restrain the criminal from evil-doing, no real chastisement for it…

— Anton Chekhov

“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. Nothing…

— Mark Twain