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Early Christianity
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The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.
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― Agnosticism and Christianity and Other Essays
― Agnosticism and Christianity and Other Essays
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When Eugenia turns the experiences of Thecla over in her heart, we know she is thinking about how Thecla's experience measures against her own. And of course our writer is reaching out to his or her own reader here: just as Eugenia was changed by Thecla's story, so the reader's own life should be somehow changed by Eugenia's.
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― Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
― Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
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