The Christians of the West were supposed by many to be building Jerusalem on earth. While some shards of heavenly light did shine through, on other occasions the construction seemed instead to resemble a cathedral of human depravity. Christendom often looked like a city of perdition rather than the city of God. Sad to say, with a few exceptions, it was empire rather than evangelism that made Christianity a global religion. Do we regard the Church’s association with empire as a marriage of providential convenience or an act of spiritual adultery? Did Christ defeat Caesar or did we merely turn
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