Now that the Church was established, Christology became paramount, more important than life itself, for the right definition of Christ would decide whether a man would achieve salvation and enter heaven. In our secular era, the debates on nuclear disarmament or global warming are the closest equivalents in their passion and intensity. Christianity now became a mass religion in an age of fanatical faith and these questions were debated in the streets as well as in the palaces of the empire.
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Jerusalem
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Hi. I know the bold part means “in terms of their passion and intensity”. But how do you paraphrase the underlined sentence?
Thank you.
zuotengdazuo how do you paraphrase the underlined sentence? In our secular era, the debates on nuclear disarmament or global warming are the closest equivalents in their passion and intensity . ~ In modern times, where concerns about matters of religion are of less interest to people, arguments on nuclear disarmament or global warming are arguments that are most similar to the arguments on the right definition of Christ if we measure similarity in terms of how enthusiastic and loud these arguments were.
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zuotengdazuohow do you paraphrase the underlined sentence?
In our secular era, the debates on nuclear disarmament or global warming are the closest equivalents in their passion and intensity.
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In modern times, where concerns about matters of religion ar