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Originally Posted by pelathais
Too limited of a list, IMHO. Perhaps you were also just intending the "sources of religion" relevant to 20th Century Americans?
The Council of Nicea was actually a bust, initially. The next 3 Roman Emperors were all Arians and pushed Arian theology. Then, the 4th Emperor after Nicea (Julian the Apostate) renounced Christianity as a whole. It was Theodosius who finally started to tear down "pagan" temples and to really promote "The Catholic Faith" - thought Roman Catholicism was still centuries away.
"We" (OPs) are "Children of the Reformation" in many ways. However, the bulk of our theological baggage was inherited from Wesley ("Perfectionism") and the English Brethren Movement (Dispensationalism) - though both of these were also "Children of the Reformation."
The teachings of the ancients (the apostles of the First Century) has been all but lost. We may mouth some of their words but we really do miss out on their meaning all too often. Our literalism ("Fundamentalism") is less than 200 years old.
Just some thoughts.
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The interesting thing to me is that to my knowledge, this sort of thing is so easy for folks sitting there warm in pews to simply accept, for some it just floated over their heads, and even others, it means absolutely nothing because the culture is doing just fine to convince them of the truth.
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