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To: Marysecretary
Indeed, all things in God's own timing.

Worth discussing though, how personal literacy (which is absolutely indispensable to some modern forms of Christianity) would be so completely and thorougly unworkable from the Apostolic Age all the way up through Gutenberg and modern schooling.

We make too many assumptions in our modern era..."chronological snobbery" C. S. Lewis called it.

22 posted on 01/24/2007 11:52:32 AM PST by Claud
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To: Claud

Of course the verbal transmission of the Word was unworkable through the middle ages.


23 posted on 01/24/2007 12:03:26 PM PST by Gamecock (Ecclesia reformata, semper reformanda secundum verbum Dei)
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To: Claud

Indeed.


33 posted on 01/24/2007 1:24:20 PM PST by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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