Kenneth Scott Latourette Quotes

Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.

The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.

All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.

Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.

Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.

Christianity and Islam, they have the same morals, same lifestyle, some of the same stories that shaped them.

I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.

If you get into really learning about the roots of monotheism, it was utterly a radical cultural moment. The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it.

In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions.

Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.

All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they also help set one community apart from another that doesn't share their beliefs.

Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

I don't have a religion, but I respect them.

It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists.

A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents.

Japanese society doesn't have a god - no absolute presence.