"If we see some admirable work of human art, we are at once eager to investigate the nature, the manner, the end of its production; and the contemplation of the works of God stirs us with an incomparab..."
- Bruce L. Shelley
"Church historians often ask, ‘Is the church a movement or an institution?' . . . I think it is both. . . . I believe the people of God in history live in a tension between an ideal--the universal comm..."
"Christianity is the only major religion to have at its central event the humiliation of its God."