Philip Jenkins Quotes

Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.

When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world not too far removed from the seventeenth century.

Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't just mean five or six centuries ago.

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