The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning. It was the first time that the Christian church did not have the capacity to keep itself unified as it recast itself, so it split into Protestant and Catholic traditions.
John Shelby SpongIf you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands what you're saying, and then you're thought to be profound.
John Shelby Spong...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.
John Shelby SpongPrayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
John Shelby Spong