Philip Schaff (January 1, 1819 – October 20, 1893), 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. Read full biography of Philip Schaff →
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became... →
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... →
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... →
It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.
The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and... →
The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for... →
Philip Schaff (January 1, 1819 – October 20, 1893), 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.