David Brewster (1781–1868) British astronomer and mathematician
His last words, as quoted in The Home Life of Sir David Brewster (2010), by his daughter, Margaret Maria Gordon. Cambridge University Press. Chapter XXI.
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 60
David Brewster (1781–1868) British astronomer and mathematician
His last words, as quoted in The Home Life of Sir David Brewster (2010), by his daughter, Margaret Maria Gordon. Cambridge University Press. Chapter XXI.
Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner (1992)
“Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
Sermon (23 November 1879)
Letters, etc
Archibald Alexander (1772–1851) American theologian
As quoted in Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 580.
Gregory A. Boyd (1957) American theologian and pastor
Source: The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church
Karl Barth book The Epistle to the Romans
The Epistle to the Romans (1918; 1921)
Context: The name Jesus defines an historical occurence and marks the point where the unknown world cuts the known world... as Christ Jesus is the plane which lies beyond our comprehension. The plane which is known to us, He intersects vertically, from above. Within history Jesus as the Christ can be understood only as Problem or Myth. As the Christ He brings the world of the Father. But we who stand in this concrete world know nothing, and are incapable of knowing anything, of that other world. The Resurrection from the dead is, however, the transformation: the establishing or declaration of that point from above, and the corresponding discerning of it below. <!-- p. 29
Pontius Pilate (-12–38 BC) was the fifth Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, from AD 26–36
“What is truth?” retorted Pilate.
John 18:37-38 NIV
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934–2017) Iranian politician, Shi'a cleric and Writer
Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani: The Teachings of Jesus Do Not Exist in Today's Christianity. Popes Ignore America's Crimes http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/640.htm April 2005 <br class="br">2005
Charles Hodge (1797–1878) American Presbyterian theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 87.
“The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ.”
James E. Talmage (1862–1933) American Mormon leader
Source: Jesus the Christ