1. I remember when our church history prof, the last day of four years of classes, said walking out of the classroom in 1970: “When all is said and done, the church has been much more influenced by Plato than by Jesus!” We were stunned, but knew it was true: We had been given a world of universal truths and forms that had to be protected by the priestly class, and body and soul were enemies, not friends. This is Plato’s world of inexorable laws, not Jesus’ world of freedom and grace.
    Richard Rohr (‘Plato or Jesus?’)
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