Before he was finished, he made a third provocative point. He identified “the Greek spirit” or “humanism” as “the most severe enemy” that Christianity ever had. He then masterfully linked the idea of “religion” and moral accomplishment as a false way to God with dualism, the idea that the body is at war with the soul. Dualism was a Greek notion, not a Hebrew or biblical notion. The biblical affirmation of the body and the material world was another theme to which he would return again and again in his life:
