Scholars like Mr Segal, and Britain's Margaret Barker, have shown that many teachings of Paul, who fashioned Christianity into a world religion, can hardly be understood without reference to Temple mysticism.
Political Islam prescribes a set of specific social, economic and legal practices in a way that is very different from the more general social teachings (such as calls to practice charity or strive for justice) found in the spiritual dimension of Islam, Christianity, Judaism and other world religions.
Christianity has become by far the world's largest religion, claiming 1.9 billion adherents.
If we look at the great religions of the world we will see that the Buddhist philosophy before Christianity and before Islam spoke of dialogue as the most important content of human relations.
UNESCO: Dialogue among civilizations: Address by Alexandre Yakovlev (Russian Federation)
In an age where we tend rather arrogantly to see Christianity as a phenomenon of the developed world - the faith that colonising Europeans took to the territories they conquered - it's worth remembering that the Middle East is the cradle of that faith.
Christianity influenced and shaped the moral foundation of the modern world even as it retrenched and conceded space to secular thought in the realm of politics.
The French state extending into Africa to bring the benefits of commerce and Christianity to what all Europe considered the dark places of the world.
Though Tolkien, a Catholic, helped reconvert Lewis to Christianity after his atheist years, it is Lewis's fantasy world, not Tolkien's, that radiates Christian allegory.
Whereas there is a frightening drop in vocations to the priesthood and religious life in North America and Europe, religious vocations are booming in Africa and African clerics are all over the Western world helping in the re-evangelization of the descendants of the Western missionaries who brought Christianity to Africa.
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