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Roman Empire Catholic Church
2,303 words... the Christian side. The destruction of all copies of this treatise was ordered by Constantine, an action which has been termed the first instance of the secular arm proceeding against a work of the mind (une oeuvre de l esprit) on the ground of heterodoxy. In Catholicism the spiritual forces of the Pagan world found a new rallying-ground. It was in Catholicism ultimately that the creative powers and assimilative energies of pagan Greco-Roman civilization became most alive as the forerunner o...
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Crime And Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
7,154 wordsAlfred Einstein stated: Dostoevsky gives me more than any other thinker. 1 Nicholas Berdyaev was professor of philosophy at the University of Moscow until he was expelled by the Communist regime in 1922. Berdyaev testified that Dostoevsky stirred and lifted up my soul more than any other writer or philosopher has done when I turned to Jesus Christ for the first time. 2 Some would assert that either The Brothers Karamazov [pronounced kare-uh-MAHT-to] or Crime and Punishment is the greatest novel ...
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