Fun Quotes from My Reading.... (Christianity, Christian, Christ, reform)

[angellous_evangellous]

"Their number overwhelms me when I try to count them on my fingers"

John Eck, counting heretics

[Melancholy]

I'm glad I'm overwhelming.

*Preens*

[angellous_evangellous]

"Zwingli is a dolt, a dolt, a dance, who denies freewill."

John Eck

[angellous_evangellous]

"In this statement there are about as many errors as there are words."

J. Eck

[angellous_evangellous]

"There are reports from German towns in the early 1520s of people wiping their backsides with the indulgence letters they had purchased only a short time before."

Peter Marshall, "Leaving the world," an essay in Reformation Christianity edited by Peter Marshall, page 181.

[MidnightBlue]

Originally Posted by angellous_evangellous

Peter Marshall, "Leaving the world," an essay in Reformation Christianity edited by Peter Marshall, page 181.

And I thought he was just the host of Hollywood Squares.

[angellous_evangellous]

"The topic of Luther and the Jews remains a best-seller, a ready-made crowd-pleaser if for no other reason than that it is an excellent chance to see one of the great men of Christendom with his pants down."

Rowan, Steven W. “Luther, Bucer and Eck on the Jews,” Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1. (Spring, 1985), p. 79.


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[angellous_evangellous]

"Sometimes, too, many idle, chattering, gossiping women used to take advantage of the morning interval before and after such sermons to busy themselves with talk and shopping"

... Switzerland in 1526