Quotes About Religious Crises

Fundamentalism, dispensational premillennialism, the Higher Life movement, and Pentecostalism were all evangelical strategies of survival in response to the religious crises of the late nineteenth century. In different ways each preserved something essential of the Christian faith. But together they were a disaster for the life of the mind.

When economic and social revolutions are not simply ideological pretexts for religious crises, after a few years of disorder everything continues as before.