Word: damiani
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christianity does not teach that Jesus was 'a God.' Indeed if we are using language, in a truly Christian way, there is no such entity as 'a God.' There is only one God, and in the Christian sense there could not conceivably be more . . . Peter Damiani, the medieval divine, commenting on the words uttered by the serpent in Eden ('Ye shall be as gods'), remarked that the Devil was the first grammarian when he taught men to give a plural to the word 'God.' It should have neither a plural...