Kenneth Scott Latourette Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.”

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

“The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.”

“This means that to man God gave a degree of free will.”

“Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.”

“When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.”

“Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.”

“Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.”

“Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.”

“Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.”