Christian Smith Quotes

• The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.

  Christian Smith

  Espiritual, Profesor, Niños

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• The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the clergy profession is to make the body of Christ lame. This happens not because clergy intend it (they usually intend the opposite) but because the objective nature of the profession inevitably turns the laity into passive receivers.

  Christian Smith

  Opposites, Purpose, Lame

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• Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-

  Christian Smith

  Issues, Adults, Problem

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• La vida social humana, sugiero, es el magma que entra en erupción y se acumula, por así decirlo, en las líneas de falla donde las capacidades humanas naturales se encuentran y rechinan contra y sobre las limitaciones humanas naturales..... Este encuentro de poderes y limitaciones produce una tensión y una energía creativas y dinámicas que generan y alimentan la creación de la vida y las estructuras sociales humanas.... Son las personas reales que viven las tensiones de las contradicciones existenciales naturales las que construyen los significados, las interacciones, las instituciones y las estructuras sociales.

  Christian Smith

  Real, Creative, Fuel

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• Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

  Christian Smith

  White, Backgrounds, Percent

  Michael O. Emerson, Christian Smith (2000). “Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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