NON-VIOLENCE AND ALL THAT.
Sir,-When your correspondent H. H. Fountain asserts that the secular historian is unable to explain the miraculous spread of Christianity in the Roman world, he deludes himself by supposing that the secular historian’s definition of Christianity is as elastic and accommodating: as his own. No one familiar with the ethos of the primitive Christian community would wittingly identify it with the brand of State religion fathered by Constantine. True, a doctrine labelled Christianity did spread rapidly through Rome’s dominions, but it had no more effect upon the life of the people as a whole than, say, the Anglican communion has to-day. Under its aegis mankind became, if anything, more violent than
ever,
SURREALIST
(Auckland)_
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 142, 13 March 1942, Page 4
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118NON-VIOLENCE AND ALL THAT. New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 142, 13 March 1942, Page 4
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