Word: troeltsch
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Hard-pressed even to survive, the Copts could develop no great religious art or thought. Sneered the great German theologian Ernst Troeltsch: "Christianity is what it has come to be only through its alliance with antiquity; while with the Copts and Ethiopians it is but a kind of buffoonery." But the very backwardness of the Coptic Church has made it an archeological repository of beliefs and practices more like those of apostolic Christianity than those of Western churches...
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