Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.
When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.
Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.
There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological niches, yet preserving intact its story of grace, of love improbably triumphant.
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