Philip Schaff Quotes

Philip Schaff — Swiss Theologian died on December 30, 1893

Philip Schaff, was a Swiss-born, German-educated Protestant theologian and a Church historian who spent most of his adult life living and teaching in the United States... (wikipedia)

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

Philip Schaff Quotes

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