... as Christ continues to challenge us over the problems of war and race, economic injustice and the source of AIDS. But let us never forget that the One who began life as a baby in Bethlehem is the one who has changed all things! Kenneth Scott Latourette, the distinguished Yale historian once wrote, "Measured by its fruits in the human race, that short life of Jesus has been the most influential ever lived on this planet. Gauged by the consequences which have followed his life, Jesus of Nazareth is central in ...
... makes us free indeed. 1. Wilbert F. Howard, The Interpreter’s Bible (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1952), vol. 8, p. 600. 2. Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus (New York: The MacMillan Co., 1968), p. 403. 3. "The Freedom of the Christian Man." 4. Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of Christianity (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1953), p. 714. 5. An inexact quotation, from memory, of a phrase in a book by Samuel Shoemaker, late Episcopal rector of Calvary Episcopal Church, New York City.
... that man could forget all that he had learned up to then. This was the formula that opened the secrets of atomic power. (3) The teachings of Jesus were just as dramatic in the spiritual realm as Einstein's were in the scientific. Historian Kenneth Scott Latourette reminds us, "As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by his effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet." "And," he said, "that influence appears to be mounting." No wonder we date our ...
