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Thread ID: 4824 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-02-06
2003-02-06 15:14 | User Profile
GENE EXPRESSION (a blog, I think) January 23, 2003 Christianity & liberalism-the wide view
Is liberalism contingent upon Christianity? Is Christianity contingent upon liberalism? Do the two spring from a common-source, or is it simple coincidence that a Christian civilization was instrumental in the birth & maturation of the liberal idea?
Please note carefully how I phrased it, I said a Christian civilization, not the Christian civilization. Though Christianity and the West are synonymous, this was not always so. Before the Papacy's ascendance in the High Middle Ages, the period between 600 (the end of Gregory the Great's time-the Pope who became more than first among equals and planted the seeds that become the great forest of the modern Papacy) and 1100 was marked by a contest of wills between two great Christian civilizations.
And the follow-on essay here about 1/3 of the way down:
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