When God Arrived With a Government: When Salvation Required Surrender and Christianity Policed the Soul

Howard, J. C.

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When God Arrived With a Government

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When Salvation Required Surrender and Christianity Policed the Soul

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There are histories of Christianity that make me uncomfortable because Christianity was persecuted.

Goa makes me uncomfortable for the opposite reason.

Here Christianity had power.

Not merely spiritual influence.

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