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“Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.”

Church Criticism Corrections Repetitive Proclamation

Book:Church Dogmatics: pt. 1. The doctrine of the word of God

Source: Church Dogmatics: pt. 1. The doctrine of the word of God

“The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was not criticism but credulity. The Church Fathers observed that in the realm of thought only heresy had a history.”

Believe Christian Father Jesus Christ Church Atheism Messages Jesus Christ Criticism Tests Salvation Positive Atheism Realms Willingness Heresy Credulity Church Fathers

Book:The Discoverers

Source: The Discoverers

“Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Especially women use words that are not words,--as steps in a dance are not steps,--but reproduce the genius of that they speak of; as the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely, whilst the church chimes in the distance bring the church and its serious memories before us.”

Thinking Men Use Remember Speak Sound Church Memories Steps Serious Genius Approach Argument Criticism Horse Lays Distance Charm Bells Disputes Precision Talkers Chimes

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Biblical higher criticism is preserved in the particular enclave of academic Christian scholarship and is thought to be too unfruitful to share with the average pew-sitter, for it raises more questions than the church can adequately answer. So the leaders of the church would protect the simple believers from concepts they were not trained to understand. In this way that ever-widening gap between academic Christians and the average pew-sitter made its first appearance.”

Way Firsts Made Christian Religion Church Simple Answers Leader Share Particular Higher Protect Concepts Criticism Raises Average Appearance Believer Gaps Academic Biblical Scholarship

Author:John Shelby Spong

“I have followed the Church in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected.”

Giving Years Has Beens Character Church Religious Party Hundred Program Criticism Logical Amendments Creeds Fifteen Rejected Suggestions Finality

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Epic: A Journey Through Church History fills an urgent need for adult Catholics to recover their history as a believing community, debunk false criticisms of their Church, and understand the Christian underpinnings of the modern world. This is a vivid, thorough and engaging program. I heartily recommend it.”

World Needs Believe Christian Community Church Journey Modern Adults Program Criticism Catholic Epic Engaging Vivid Modern World Urgent Thorough Church History

Author:Charles J. Chaput

“How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.”

People Spirit Social Christ Church Prayer Cold Criticism Meetings Dare Get Up Few Words Prayer Meeting

Book:Secret Power

Source: Secret Power

“The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, equality before the law, freedom of conscience, thought, and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy- quite an achievement, surely, for any civilization- - remain the best, and perhaps the only, means for all people, no matter of what race or creed, to reach their full potential and live in freedom.”

Source: Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays

“Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.”

Firsts Church Divine Morality Criticism Theology Reform Agendas Target

Author:Michael Horton

“I'm not turned away from the church through anger, although I have criticisms of it. It's through finding affirmation of life and illumination of life through creativity and art.”

Art Church Creativity Findings Criticism Affirmation Illumination

Author:Steve Coogan