He would provide a profile of the early Church which was «a religious communion claiming a divine commission, and holding all other religious bodies around it heretical or infidel, a sort of secret society binding its members together by influence and engagement,
spread over the whole world, a natural enemy to governments, intolerant and capable of dividing families and breaking laws.
Finally it is to be noted that secularization is now
spreading over the whole world.
Not exact matches
It has its centre in the Temple at Jerusalem with a small amount of contiguous territory, but the writ of its ecclesiastical government runs through hundreds of Jewish colonies,
spread over the
whole civilized
world, and owing political allegiance to various secular states.
it is only in the Christo - centric area of a noogenetic Universe that it [love] is released in the pure state and so displays its astonishing power to transform everything and replace everything... A current of love is all at once released, to
spread over the
whole breadth and depth of the
World; and this it does not as though it were some super-added warmth or fragrance, but as a fundamental essence that will metamorphose all things, assimilate and take the place of all.94
«They're putting everything into H. erectus
over huge geographical distances, essentially
spread throughout the
whole world, and
over a vast number of years,» Johanson says.