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To: Kolokotronis; Quix; kosta50

Anyone even marginally familiar with history would know, for example, that Constantine did not establish Christianity as state religion; that throughout the history of church-state relations in the West conflict was frequent (look up “investiture controversy” for starters). Anyone who would bother to read ante-nicene fathers will find that the Church was eucharistic and hierarchical as early as when St. Ignatius coined the word “Catholic” sometime at the close of 1st c.


13,882 posted on 05/03/2007 3:46:45 PM PDT by annalex
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To: annalex

Coining the word catholic

and the church of the first century, 2nd century and 3rd century all being

100% equal to, identical with

the politically established ROMAN EDIFICE

is a much bigger stretch than my understanding of history is able or willing to make.


13,893 posted on 05/03/2007 5:08:17 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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