Book

A History of Christianity

Paul Johnson · 1976

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Themethe body performing a ritualcompliancesurvivalreligious coercioninstitutional shamerefusalthe body politicinstitutional wealth vs. poverty

Context1976lived_experience

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God & Work

What this book knows

Christianity's two-thousand-year struggle with power, conscience, and institutional corruption reveals how faith reshapes and is reshaped by human will.

Sex: Absent
Work: Present
Learning: Absent
Religion: Primary

obedience-and-authorityfaith-and-doubtambition-and-status

ambition-and-status

our stomachs ought to hunger for the bread of the poor, and expend their necessities on luxuries, belching forth over the altars
HCJ-002

obedience-and-authority

Elect another who will please the majority — forgive me for doing wrong
HCJ-002
Even if my own father were a heretic, I would gather the wood to burn him
HCJ-003

faith-and-doubt

No man is to abase himself by showing toleration towards any sort of heretic, least of all a Calvinist
HCJ-003
I have always sacrificed to the gods and now in your presence I have made sacrifice and poured a libation — I request you to certify this
HCJ-001

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3 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience

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