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Criticism of Christianity has a long history stretching back to the initial formation of the religion during the Roman Empire. Critics have challenged Christian beliefs and teachings as well as Christian actions, from the Crusades to modern terrorism. The intellectual arguments against Christianity include the suppositions that it is a faith of ...
Jan 1, 2018 · "Whenever and wherever Christians have taken the idea that holiness is possible seriously, Christianity has thrived. Whenever and wherever the biggest lie in the history of Christianity has prevailed and everyday holiness has been set aside, Christianity has fumbled along clumsily with limited impact or become stagnant." "I don't like alarm clocks.
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Paul C. Gutjahr is Ruth N. Halls Professor of English at Indiana University, and the author or editor of An American Bible: The History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777–1881 (1999), Popular American Literature in the Nineteenth Century (2001), Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy (2011), The Book of Mormon: A Biography (2012), Bestsellers in Nineteenth-Century America: An ...
Criticism of Christianity has a long history which stretches back to the initial formation of the religion in the Roman Empire. Critics have challenged Christian beliefs and teachings as well as Christian actions, from the Crusades to modern terrorism. The arguments against Christianity include the suppositions that it is a faith of violence, corruption, superstition, polytheism, homophobia ...
Protestantism - Biblical Criticism: Protestantism, and Christianity in general, also encountered an intellectual onslaught from thinkers who declared that the advance of science and of history proved the Bible, and therefore Christianity, untrue. The great issue for Protestants and all Christians in the 19th century was the question of biblical criticism; i.e., whether a person could be a ...
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- The debate over Christology in modern Christian thought
Few Protestant theologians in the middle of the 20th century were willing to endorse the ancient dogma of the two natures in Christ as unconditionally as the reformers had done, for between the Reformation and modern theology there intervened a debate over Christology that altered the perspective of most Protestant denominations and theologians. By...
Few Protestant theologians in the middle of the 20th century were willing to endorse the ancient dogma of the two natures in Christ as unconditionally as the reformers had done, for between the Reformation and modern theology there intervened a debate over Christology that altered the perspective of most Protestant denominations and theologians. By...
Feb 13, 2018 · At the time, Ehrman notes, “Christianity probably made up 7 to 10 percent of the population of the Roman Empire.”. A mere hundred years later, half the empire’s “60 million inhabitants ...
