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Quotes from The Cruelty of Heresy — C. FitzSimons Allison

born 1927 United States

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Christianity did not and cannot start with people who have forsaken sin. It receives them and begins to free them from the bondage that is sin.

The Cruelty of Heresy (1994)

One of the spiritual hazards of scholarship is that it can become Gnostic. A lifetime of submersion in conceptual and subtle complexities with an ever more sophisticated vocabulary can seduce some of the best scholars into elitism, inept pedagogy, and irrelevance.

The Cruelty of Heresy (1994)

St. Paul established the guidelines for all subsequent orthodoxy that race, nationality, degree of servitude, and gender are not barriers to identification with Christ’s saving humanity, and it is an Antiochene heresy to say that any of these differences is a barrier.

The Cruelty of Heresy (1994)

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