...the doctrine of the unity of God now enforced the unity of man, who had been created in His image. The first lesson of Christianity was love ; a love...world, exactly as the universal sway of the Caesars was contrasted with the innumerable kingdoms and republics that had gone before it. The analogy of the...

...one God, and the doctrine of the unity of God enforced the unity of man ; and there was thus formed a community of the faithful — a holy empire — designed to gather all men into its bosom. Thus the Holy Roman Church and the Holy Roman Empire were one and the same thing in two aspects. As...

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...306 and 337. When describing the time of Charlemagne, Bryce beautifully writes of the Holy Empire : "The first lesson of Christianity was love, a love...faithful, a Holy Empire designed to gather all men to its bosom and standing opposed to the manifold polytheism of the older world." Bryce tells us in...

...doctrine of the unity of God now enforced that of the unity of man, who had been created in His image. The first lesson of Christianity was love, a love...prejudice and pride of race had hitherto kept apart. Thus was formed by the new religion a community of the faithful, a Holy Empire, opposed to the polytheism...

...be eternal, came, under influences of far greater power, to believe the Church also to be eternal. The first lesson of Christianity was love, a love that was to join in one body those whom sue1 picion and prejudice, and racial difference had up to this time kept apart. As long as the unity...

...the doctrine of the unity of God now enforced the unity of man, who had been created in his image. The first lesson of Christianity was love, a love...world, exactly as the universal sway of the Caesars was contrasted with the innumerable kingdoms and republics that had gone before it. The analogy of the...

...the ages that followed were those of a worldmonarchy and a world-religion." f Christianity had formed a community of the faithful, a Holy Empire, designed...opposed to the manifold polytheisms of the older world, just as the universal sway of the Roman Emperors was contrasted with the innumerable kingdoms and citystates...