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... Christian strands ; and mediƦval Christianity was a far more comprehensive and solid structure than romance . There is Christian feeling in the Song of Roland and the High History of the Holy Grail , but no educated Christian of the ...
... Christian strands ; and mediƦval Christianity was a far more comprehensive and solid structure than romance . There is Christian feeling in the Song of Roland and the High History of the Holy Grail , but no educated Christian of the ...
Page 253
... Christianity , savouring of gnosticism and antinomian- ism . It had its root in what was , in part , an illusion ... Christ and had in him no small measure of the spirit of Christ - the Christ who cast out those who bought and sold in ...
... Christianity , savouring of gnosticism and antinomian- ism . It had its root in what was , in part , an illusion ... Christ and had in him no small measure of the spirit of Christ - the Christ who cast out those who bought and sold in ...
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... Christian because he realises , as possibly few of his fellow - apostles did , the tre- mendous venture on which he has embarked ; he knows that Christ crucified is " unto the Jews a stumbling- block , and unto the Greeks foolishness ...
... Christian because he realises , as possibly few of his fellow - apostles did , the tre- mendous venture on which he has embarked ; he knows that Christ crucified is " unto the Jews a stumbling- block , and unto the Greeks foolishness ...
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