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Old 04-15-2008, 09:55 PM
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1. Aquinas

2. Dante

3. They attempted (somewhat unsuccessfully) a Christian worldview. They did not need the State for a "Christian discourse" and a "Christian consensus." It just flowed out of Christendom.

4. Definitionally, they hadn't read Calvin. Okay seriously, Pope Gregory's Reforms, while somewhat justified, introduced Marcionite and secular tendencies into the church.
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