“Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on several grounds work that is in any way explicitly Christian in content and also shrugs off as naive anything that has the semblance of hope or optimism in outlook.” WorldWayArtFactsProblemChristianLyingCultureCommunityChristianityOptimismCoreVisualsRejectsNaiveOutlookProtestantsArt WorldVisual ArtSemblanceDisinterest Author:John Walford
“As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely undernourished. One might go so far as to say that Protestants in particular suffer from a form of visual anorexia. It is not that there is a lack of visual stimuli, but rather a lack of wholesomeness of form and content amidst the all-pervasive sensory overload.” ArtMightTodayFormSufferingCultureChristianityParticularHungryVisualsAppetiteStimulusProtestantsAnorexiaSensoryVisual ArtOverloadWholesomeness Author:John Walford
“Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century.” FirstsMayEndsShowsChristianFormReligionThreeChurchAcceptingChristianityCenturyThirdsCatholicInstitutionsStructureComplexesScriptureContemporaryOrthodoxCreedsDiverseTestamentPremisesNew TestamentProtestantsChristian ChurchCanonApostolicUnanimity Author:Elaine Pagels
“Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the Lord Jesus had never entered her heart. Her piety was an act of war against Protestant ascendancy. ...The teachings of the Church did not interest her, except as they were a rebuke to others.” HeartWarFeelingsChristianJesusInterestChurchChristianityLordTeachingMercyGrandmotherAggressiveTraitsDominantMy GrandmotherPietyProtestantsRebukeAscendancy Author:Mary McCarthy
“In the eyes of the Associated Press, American Christianity, which springs from the Protestant Reformation, is fundamentalist. And Christian Fundamentalists, radical Muslims, Hindu extremists, and fanatical Zionists are all the same - bloodthirsty lunatics.” EyeChristianReligiousChristianitySpringPressesRadicalReformationExtremistProtestantsFundamentalistZionistProtestant Reformation Book:The Turning Tide Source: The Turning Tide
“It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.” MenShouldFirstsJoyFatherChurchChristianitySonOppositesCatholicFleshCeaseCatholic ChurchProtestantsRenounceUnsatisfiedProtestantismRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Book:Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“We are a people of different faiths, but we are one. Which faith conquers the other is not the question; rather, the question is whether Christianity stands or falls.... We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity... in fact our movement is Christian. We are filled with a desire for Catholics and Protestants to discover one another in the deep distress of our own people.” PeopleIdeasDifferentFactsChristianDesireFallChristianityAtheismMovementCatholicFilledConquerTolerateDistressProtestantsDifferent Faiths Author:Adolf Hitler
“[Pope Francis] most recent trip was to Sweden, where he commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. That had triggered one of the biggest splits in Christianity and decades of religious wars. He went so far as to praise Luther, who was once considered a heretic in the church, as a great reformer. So what he's been doing with other Christian churches is trying to heal past wounds and work together toward a shared view of their history.” TryingWarChristianTogetherPastChurchReligiousViewsChristianityPraiseDecadesWoundsHealWorking TogetherSplitsPopeLutherReformationProtestantsHereticSwedenReformersChristian ChurchReligious WarsProtestant Reformation Author:Sylvia Poggioli
“It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who is holding hands with every mainline Methodist, or what have you. Obviously, American Christianity was deeply divided in all kinds of ways at mid-century too. But there was a kind of convergence going on. Even though Reinhold Niebuhr, the great mainline Protestant theologian, didn't think highly of Billy Graham, he and Graham still, clearly, had more in common, both theologically and in their attitudes toward religion in public life.” ThinkingWayKindStillsMomentsHandsCommonAttitudeChristianityCasesCenturyCatholicAll KindsDividedAmerican HistoryTheologianPublic LifeProtestantsEvangelicalHolding HandsMethodistsConvergence Author:Ross Douthat