America Quote by Stanley Hauerwas

America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Protestantism developed its sense of identity primarily in response to external threats and criticisms rather than as a result of shared beliefs. In one…

— Anonymous

“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 Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning.…

— John Shelby Spong

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

“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

I am not sure I can make clear what it means to say I come from the Catholic side of Protestantism, but at the…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“The establishment of Protestant Christianity was one not only of law, but also, and far more importantly, of culture. Christianity supplied the nation with…

— Gary DeMar

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

America was founded by religious people; devout people who came here because they wanted freedom of religion, It's what made America different from every…

— Rick Warren

“That Word, which had created the world out of nothing, was certainly capable of producing the reformation the entire church needed, and to which…

— Justo L. González