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Flight From Knowledge (Flight From Knowledge and Life) (Remastered)
In this opening lecture on Neoplatonism and Christianity, the speaker contrasts biblical faith with a Greek, dialectical worldview that split spirit and matter and treated the body as the source of evil, a mindset that seeped into the early church and produced extreme ascetic “sainthood” marked by self-mortification, contempt for ordinary life, and spiritual pride. Through vivid historical examples, he argues that this is not Christianity at all: Scripture teaches that the whole man (body and soul) fell into sin and the whole man is redeemed in Christ, culminating in the resurrection of the…
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