Timothy Koller

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In A Brief History of Thought Luc Ferry tells the story of how the Christian faith grew and supplanted classical Greco-Roman culture and pagan thought in the West.38 One reason it did so was because “Christianity gave to the world . . . [ideas that] . . . many modern ethical systems would adopt for their own purposes.”39 One was that of human equality. The Greek worldview rested “entirely on the conviction that there exists a natural hierarchy. . . . Some men are born to command, others to obey.” But “in direct contradiction, Christianity was to introduce the notion that humanity was ...more
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