Ancient Quote by Robert E. Webber

“Still, Rome was horrified by all this. The Vatican had “Christianized” the teachings of Aristotle, and not Plato. It preached that redemption could come…

— Benjamin Blech

“The Reformation biblical faith in God[50] had radically desacralized [entgöttert] the world. Thus the ground was prepared in which rational and empirical science could…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“...only in the late 1100s and 1200s did scholars in Sicily and Spain translate Aristotle's greatest philosophical and scientific texts. These translations had an…

— William C Placher

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

“I have come to appreciate the pivotal distinction between Plato’s concept of Eternal Truths versus Aristotle’s experience-based understanding. I also now realize the crucial…

— Ken Elmgren

The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to…

— Leonard Sweet

“The ultimate triumph of Christianity was aided by the internal drive within Roman paganism toward some kind of monotheism. By 150 A.D., whatever vitality…

— Norman F. Cantor

Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries.…

— Elaine Pagels

Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust…

— Richard Rohr

Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe.…

— Frederick The Great

“Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge in discovering…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr