Now of course this does not mean that Christianity simply classified itself as a philosophy in contrast to various religions, although Christianity’s description of itself as the true philosophy is one of the fundamental elements of the early Church. Nevertheless, Karl Barth was wrong when he maintained that Christianity has absolutely nothing to do with religion, thus starting a trend that postulated a “Christianity without religion” and eventually managed to include the “death of God” in its repertoire. No, Christianity was able to relate to the religions [of antiquity] in its forms of
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