Assuming Quote by Roger E. Olson

But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that…

— Amartya Sen

We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as…

— Kevin Costner

Today we cannot assume people, even all Christians, understand the Bible's implicit, underlying view of reality. We have to dig it out and show…

— Roger E. Olson

The biblical writers didn't need to say everything; they could assume some things. They didn't anticipate a day when even Jews and Christians would…

— Roger E. Olson

We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of messages and…

— Roger E. Olson

Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves…

— Alan Watts

If you don't have the worldview of the people who produced the Bible - under inspiration no less, - you can't understand what they…

— Michael S. Heiser

We stand in the shadow of the Bible today as opposed to in the pages of the Bible. I think that the biblical illiteracy…

— Hank Hanegraaff

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

— Patrick deWitt

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

— Gore Verbinski

People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.

— Julia Michaels

Why is it that we have a tendency to lazily assume other Christians have been the kind of dedicated, motivated, responsible, knowledgeable experts on…

— Len Smith