Philip Schaff
Philip Schaff
Philip Schaff, was a Swiss-born, German-educated Protestant theologian and a Church historian who spent most of his adult life living and teaching in the United States...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionTheologian
CountrySwitzerland
christian miracle tests
The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It is either the greatest miracle or the greatest delusion which history records.
christian spiritual source
If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.
christian responsibility men
Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other extends it to all men on the condition of faith. Both are right in what they assert; both are wrong in what they deny. If one important truth is pressed to the exclusion of another truth of equal importance, it becomes an error, and loses its hold upon the conscience. The Bible gives us a theology which is more human than Calvinism and more divine than Arminianism, and more Christian than either of them.
adapted bible child class general grade matter men religious style thinker
The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.
It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.
among became dwells human testament union
The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'
belong gospels
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
government atheism example
The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.
dirt
Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.
jesus facts christ
The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.
design style new-testament
The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.
country exercise atheism
In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.
song gratitude book
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
book law religion
The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.