... the unity of the Christian church, which had for the previous one thousand years provided the cultural and organizational foundation of the Western Civilization" (Strayer 1995: 35). The faith the church proclaimed had provided the essential questions of life for everyone from poor peasants to rich nobles. These questions were about to be challenged. The oldest of the Christian churches, the Roman Catholic Church has a very long history in Germany and remains one of the largest religions in the ... " theory was not just a matter of intellectual convenience, but was in fact also the truth....

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... Throughout history, people have always been aware of ever-present truths concerning the world in which they lived. For example, when the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt, they knew that they were God's chosen people. For thousands of years, all Europeans knew that the earth was flat and that there was nothing that lie beyond the Atlantic Ocean. On February 15, 1564, the day ... adversaries wrong. Galileo admits this in the front of his own copy of Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, "Take care, theologians, that in wishing to make matters of faith of the propositions atten...

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