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Why did Christianity Triumph? (1) (Theodoros Ziakas)

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The question ‘Why did Christianity triumph?’ is the same as ‘Why did the Greeks become Christians?’ Identifying the two questions in this way is not an arbitrary choice. Had the Greeks not become Christian, then neither would the Romans. Given the rejection of the Jews and the indifference of the collectivist peoples of the East, there would have been no Christianity. This organic contiguity makes the question ‘Why did Christianity triumph?’ the fundamental problem of Greek identity. 1. The modernity of the question Over the Christian centuries people generally saw nothing out of the ordinary in the triumph of Christianity: the Greeks became Christian because the old pagan religion was false and Christianity was the only true religion. The ‘baptism’ of Hellenism ...

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