Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Part 7 (1492 – Present)

obedience-and-authority

• The priest by virtue of ordination became an objectively different being — easy to slide into an attitude that different moral rules applied to such a separate being.

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• The combative, denunciatory language of the Syllabus of Errors — frightened tirades against Modernism — matched by a shrewd ability to get what he wanted.

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faith-and-doubt

• A God who created the world and set up its laws, but after that allowed it to go its own way — reason being one of his chief gifts to humanity.

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• Archbishop Tutu stated that acceptance of same-sex relationships is 'a matter of ordinary justice' — behind passing conflicts, a deeper reckoning with Christian identity.

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belonging

• Collaborators had absorbed eighteen centuries of Christian negative stereotypes of Judaism — a hard burden for post-war European Christians to bear.

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• The Orthodox Church remained central to Serb identity — an amalgam combining national pride, a history of Serb struggle, and religious inheritance.

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