Quote by Ravi Zacharias
“Hace unos años visité el hogar de Martín Lutero, el reformador, en Wittenberg, Alemania. Quedé maravillado de algunos documentos de la iglesia de su tiempo que estaban en exhibición, entre los que había una referencia a una declaración emitida por el papado que decretaba que si la madre de una persona sufría en el purgatorio, en el momento exacto en que la persona compraba una indulgencia, la madre sería de inmediato transferida al cielo. ¿Puedes ver cómo se corrompió la iglesia cuando comenzó a hacer de la venta de la salvación un negocio redituable? La práctica se había convertido en una manera de extorsionar a los desinformados, y era operada como un monopolio por aquellos que se creían los únicos con derecho a ser sacerdotes. Por eso, Lutero denunció esta práctica. No exigió la abolición del sacerdocio sino que luchó contra la abolición de esa práctica.”
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Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias was born in India in 1946 and immigrated to Canada with his family twenty years later. While pursuing a career in business management, his interest in theology grew; subsequently, he pursued this study during his undergraduate education. He received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. Well-versed in the disciplines of comparative religions, cults, and philosophy, he held the chair of Evangelism and Contemporary Thought at Alliance Theological Seminary for three and a half years.
He has multiple other doctorates and degrees from a variety of colleges and seminaries.
For 35 years Ravi Zacharias has spoken all over the world and in numerous universities, notably Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford University. He has addressed writers of the peace accord in South Africa, the president's cabinet and parliament in Peru, and military officers at the Lenin Military Academy and the Center for Geopolitical Strategy in Moscow. At the invitation of the President of Nigeria, he addressed delegates at the First Annual Prayer Breakfast for African Leaders held in Mozambique.
Dr. Zacharias has direct contact with key leaders, senators, congressmen, and governors who consult him on an ongoing basis. He has addressed the Florida Legislature and the Governor’s Prayer Breakfast in Texas, and has twice spoken at the Annual Prayer Breakfast at the United Nations in New York, which marks the beginning of the UN General Assembly each year. As the 2008 Honorary Chairman of the National Day of Prayer, he gave addresses at the White House, the Pentagon, and The Cannon House.
Commentator Chuck Colson referred to Zacharias as "the great apologist of our time."