3 Quotes by Philip Jenkins

In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.

Ironically, the same church gathering that had denounced Paul of Samosata back in 268 had explicitly condemned the term homoousios, which that earlier council had regarded as one of Paul’s heretical innovations. In 268, the church dismissed the word as heretical nonsense; sixty years later, it was the watchword for unifying orthodoxy.

Christ’s nature was a cause for which people were prepared to kill and to die, to persecute or to suffer martyrdom.