Sentences with phrase «church factual history»

However, to indict Constantine and the early historical Christianity in this way is at best simplistic, and in majority of cases betrays much ignorance of church factual history.

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In fact, however, as I have indicated, I do not think that the Synoptic traditions should be taken for the most part as factual history, but rather as reflections, cast in narrative form, of the theological thinking of the early Church about the Easter appearances and of various current controversies about them.