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
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.
men color race
Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts of God to man, without distinction of race and color. He is the author and lord of conscience, and no power on earth has a right to stand between God and the conscience.
men two flesh
Those who make pictures of the Savior, who is God as well as man in one inseparable person, either limit the incomprehensible Godhead to the bounds of created flesh, or confound his two natures like Eutyches, or separate them, like Nestorius, or deny his Godhead, like Arius; and those who worship such a picture are guilty of the same heresy and blasphemy.
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.
men errors stronger
One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end.
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.
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The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.
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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.
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Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.