--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> From reading the life of Augustine, it seems to me
> there was nothing
> democratic about the constitution of the Xtian
> church. On the contrary;
> it was founded and defined by a group of would-be
> Roman administrators
> who had to stake out a different terrain because the
> empire was crumbling.
>
>
Well, Augustine was writing about 400 years after the death of Christ. The Church wasn't "early" anymore.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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