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Page 3 In the Eastern Empire, almost identical with the original Greek Oikumene, it began to decline more slowly, in our time having gone almost entirely 'underground' but even now remaining fully functional as a true spiritual way, a last living remnant of the ancient Time of Saints. This point became a 'watershed' or point of major change in the form of our Christian civilisation. With an understanding of its nature the modern saying that 'Christianity has been tried and failed' and its converse, that 'Christianity ahs never been tried and therefore has never failed, can be seen in a clearer light. It is now clear that Christianity was tried and succeeded in its first-millennium core- community, but that outside that original 'inner circle' of the church the faith has effectively lost its way. In the earlier era of Christianity, the intellectual element in human thought, and the intellectual faculty in the human psyche, were treated differently from how they have been treated since. With the conquest of the Western Roman Empire, there had begun an era in which the divisive elements of classical Greek thought once again entered the arena. Similar components exist in many of the world's great faiths, in most of which they are valued and maintained with care. |
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