Judith Herrin quotes

The central dynamism of Christianity, which rests precisely on a unity through variety.
-- Judith Herrin

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The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further away from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly goods. It became more like an additional arm of secular administration.
-- Judith Herrin

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A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To overlook the extent of private initiative would be to ignore a major impulse to early Christian expansion. In homes, whole families adopted a style of life modelled on the Apostles.
-- Judith Herrin

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The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the initiatic itinerary leads the being first to extinction in the divine Unity, which abolishes all perception of created things. But spiritual realization, if it is complete, arrives afterwards at the "second station of separation" where the being perceives simultaneously the one in the multiple and the multiple in the one.

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.

May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.

If our Christianity doesn’t work at home, it doesn’t work.