The African church is no hotbed of liberalism.

非洲教会不是自由主义的温床。

There are several universities that are run by, or operated by fundamentalist churches – fundamentalist groups.

达拉斯市内有多所由基要主义教会或基要主义团体管理或运营的大学。

And I went to a legalistic church, me and my wife, so we had no spirituality.

和妻子曾去一个律法主义的教会，所以缺乏灵性。

But still to do him justice first and last In church he was a noble ecclesiast.

但是，首先和最后都要公正地对：教堂里，是一位高贵的教会主义者。

There are actually two letters, and they give us a window into the radicalism that was gripping the church during this era.

实际上有两封信，它为提供了一扇了解当时掌控教会的激进主义的窗口。

So Erika, in our earlier conversation you talked about growing up in a fundamentalist church and making the decision to leave that community.

所以，埃丽卡，之前的谈话中，你提到了一个原教旨主义教会中长大，并做出了离开那个社区的决定。

In many cases, and throughout history, according to Ellul, the Church, with its emphasis on moralism and its teachings in the political sphere, has perverted the Gospel.

埃卢尔认为，许多情况下，纵观历史，教会强调道德主义，并政治领域传授教义，从而歪曲了福音。

I'm learning that minimalism's truest and most important lesson is that minimalism teaches each of us what enough is for each of us, right?

渐渐明白，极简主义最真实也最重要的教训是：极简主义教会每个人，什么才是对自己而言的“足够”，对吧？

Advertising and the whole capitalist model has taught us scarcity, it's taught us that you have to be surrounded by abundance in order to safe.

广告和整个资本主义模式教会了稀缺性，它告诉你必须被丰富包围才能安全。

And, see, I'd been to theology school, and I was — I grew up in the Second World War, where Reinhold Niebuhr and others criticized the church for being pacifist.

你看，上过神学院，是——第二次世界大战中长大的，那里，莱因霍尔德·尼布尔（美国神学家）和其人批评教会是和平主义者。

The people represented every religious faith—members of the Established Church of England; Puritans who had labored to reform that church;Separatists, Baptists, and Friends, who had left it altogether;and Catholics, who clung to the religion of their fathers.

人民代表了每一种宗教信仰——英格兰国教的成员；努力改革教会的清教徒； 完全离开教会的分离主义者、浸信会教徒和教友会；以及坚持其父辈宗教信仰的天主教徒。