Kenneth Scott Latourette Quotes

The Prophets And The Writers Of The Psalms Were Clear That God Was Continuing To Work In The Universe And In All History. They Declared That He Had Created The Universe.

Compared With The Thousands Of Years In Which Human Life Has Been On This Planet, Christianity Is A Recent Development.

Christians Were Regarded As Separated From Society And Therefore Destructive Of The Greco-roman Way Of Life.

Hinduism's Basic Tenet Is That Many Roads Exist By Which Men Have Pursued And Still Pursue Their Quest For The Truth And That None Has Universal Validity.

In Both The Presence Of Evil And The Eventual Triumph Over Evil The Sweep Is Cosmic. It Embraces The Entire Universe, What To Man Is Both Seen And Unseen. The Victory Is To Be Accomplished Through Christ.

When Contrasted With The Much Longer Time That Life Has Been Present, The Course Of Christianity Thus Far Is But A Brief Moment.

The Psalms, The Anthology Of The Hymns Of Israel, Are Still Used By Christians.

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.

We Know Something Of The History Of The Spread Of Christianity, But Much Passed From Recorded Memory And Much Was Transmitted By Tradition Whose Accuracy Has Been Repeatedly Questioned.

John The Baptist, Who We Are Told Was Related By Blood To Jesus, Was Preaching The Impending Judgement Of God, Urging Repentance And Moral Reform, And Baptizing In The Jordan River Those Who Responded.

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.

Freedom Was Conditioned By Man's Physical Body, Heredity, And Environment.