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Early Christianity
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No one person or group of people could have brought
about the first church community. No heights of oratory,
no burning enthusiasm, could have awakened for Christ the
thousands who were moved at the time, or produced the
united life of the early church. The friends of Jesus knew this
very well. Had not the risen one himself commanded them
to wait in Jerusalem for the fulfillment of the great promise?
(Luke 24:49) John had baptized in water all those who
listened to him. But the first church was
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― God's Revolution: Justice, Community, and the Coming Kingdom
― God's Revolution: Justice, Community, and the Coming Kingdom
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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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