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
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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.
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Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of the American creed, without distinction of sect or party. Liberty, both civil and religious, is an American instinct. Such liberty is impossible on the basis of a union of church and state, where the one of necessity restricts or controls the other. It requires a friendly separation, where each power is entirely independent in its own sphere.
It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.
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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.'
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To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
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The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.
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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.