Christianity Quote by Rodney Stark

“early modern Christianity is often portrayed as an essentially European religion. This is regrettable because classic Christianity has its pre-European roots in cultures that…

— Thomas C. Oden

“How unbearably tragic it would be, though, if the millions of Asia, South America and Africa were led to believe that the best we…

— Dallas Willard

“It was Islam’s armies and the empire they spread across three continents that reduced Christianity, with a few scattered exceptions, to a European faith.”

— Nigel Cliff

“In Africa, he said, there was none whatever. Africans do not, in fact, believe that Christianity is any longer real for Europeans, due to…

— James Baldwin

“Let us suppose that Muslims secured control over much of western Europe, say in the 730s or 740s. Can we realistically speculate whether European…

— Philip Jenkins

“Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral…

— Evelyn Waugh

“It is in Christianity that our arts have developed; it is in Christianity that the laws of Europe--until recently--have been rooted. It is against…

— T.S. Eliot

“The form of Christianity that developed in Europe and later spread to America and the rest of the world was the last great creation…

— Will Durant

“The disasters of the late Middle Ages tore Christianity from its roots—cultural, geographical, and linguistic. This “uprooting” created the Christianity that we commonly think…

— Philip Jenkins

European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“And in history I found that Christianity, so far from belonging to the Dark Ages, was the one path across the Dark Ages that…

— G.K. Chesterton

Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? If we lose sight of this, the…

— Viktor Orban