Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.
Christianity and Judaism have gone through the laundromat of humanism and enlightenment, but that is not the case with Islam.
Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally.
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.
Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or 'Old Testament,' and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching.
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.