But Christianity marked a type of advance over Stoicism in that its doctrines of the nature of a good life had a this worldly exemplar.
In this sense Christianity marked a definite advance over the more intuitively based religious cults to which Hegel had been attracted in his youth, but it would only be in the modern world that the content of the core ideas of Christianity could be given proper expression.
The pope's first appointment on Thursday was with Elizabeth and Prince Philip at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, a medieval castle in Edinburgh that is the queen's official residence in Scotland and a place that figures large in the history of the schisms within Christianity that marked Britain's evolution as a nation.
Exploring and sketching the key sites of Christianity that marked the end of Jesus's earthly life, will the experience of working and travelling in the Holy Land make him think about his own relationship with the Bible story?
But they just didn't like that "progressive" word - they weren't used to it - it made their version of Christianity a "marked" one, and that made them uncomfortable.
Yet the history of Christianity is marked by violent acts that do not bring to mind images of peace or love, acts that are antithetical to Jesus' life and ministry and that fly in the face of his most important teaching: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" (Mark 12 31).
The makeup of the largely male group of participants reflects the trend now marking Christianity: the faith's shift toward the Southern Hemisphere as the number of Christians expands rapidly in Asia and Africa while remaining little changed or even declining in northern countries.
Its advocates like Orthodox Christianity as a mark of difference from the West, but they are not much interested in Christianity as such.
Modern Zulu Christianity has been marked by the growth of independent or separatist churches under prophets, some of great wealth and influence.
"Our Christian culture, marked by Christianity, ancient philosophy, humanism, Roman law and the Enlightenment, must be accepted," the Christian Democrats said.
