The Story of Christianity

Cambridge historian Henry Chadwick argued that Augustine “marks an epoch in the history of human moral consciousness.”47 For the first time the supreme goal of life was not self-control and rationality but love. Love was required to redirect the human person away from self-centeredness toward serving God and others. Augustine’s Confessions laid the

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In summary: several developments needed to take place within Christianity if it were to survive: 1) evil and darkness needed to be incorporated in a new way; 2) the feminine needed to be given more credence by Christianity, which in its historical form is patriarchal and masculinist; 3) the scriptures needed to be delit-eralised and read as metapho

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Gorman explains further, When Paul describes himself as an imitator of Christ and calls others to be imitators of him and thus of Christ (1 Cor 11:1), he is speaking, not about an option, but about a nonnegotiable mandate in which one does not deny but rather exercises one’s true identity as an apostle (and one’s true apostolic freedom), or, more g

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The spread of Christianity echoed the principles of the Subject, putting forth the ultimate Father, the almighty God in whose great hands lay the fate of all His people, the shepherd to us as flock. Under Him came another father-figure in the form of the Pope, under whom came widely distributed Fathers of local churches. A veritable Russian doll of

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