The majority of Egyptians did not benefit, however. The reforms and new economy favored the new regime and its new Greco-Macadonian administrative class. Some Egyptians did move up the social hierarchy by becoming "Greek" in educational terms, but the majority of the populace did not seem abl...
What Pagans Believed Plato believed in one God, the maker of heaven and earth. Others claim many powers for their god and care very little about other gods. Yet another type might think that the hierarchy of gods is pyramidical and that the one at the top is the One God. 10 Incest, ...
Thus, the Roman Catholic Church itself is a complex institution, for which the usual diagram of a pyramid, extending from the pope at the apex to the believers in the pew, is vastly oversimplified. Within that institution, moreover, sacred congregations, archdioceses and dioceses, provinces, ...
With the above Christology, Gebara and Ruether seem to offer Catholics a spatial metaphor of a circle to replace that of a pyramid in how currently they might relate to one another and creation, a salvation represented not as an Earthly flight but as offering our presence of tenderness and ...