31 Quotes by Kenneth Scott Latourette

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.

This means that to man God gave a degree of free will.

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

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.