Pentecostalism, has centred its appeal on a particular form of communication with the divine, speaking in tongues, which was severely mistrusted by Paul of Tarsus and which (despite the understandable claims of Pentecostals to the contrary)
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“Right down to the seventeenth century, Christian debate about faith and the world involved a debate between two Greek ghosts, Plato and Aristotle, who had never heard the name of Jesus Christ.”
― A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
― A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
“There is no surer basis for fanaticism than bad history, which is invariably history oversimplified.”
― A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
― A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
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