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In this brief guide to the history of Christianity and politics, Pecknold shows how early Christianity reshaped the Western political imagination with its new theological claims about eschatological time, participation, and communion with God and neighbor. The ancient view of the Church as the “mystical body of Christ” is singled out as the author traces shifts in its use and meaning throughout...

of extended space.10 It ceased to be simply a city-state that could comprehend the good that was common to all, and its political philosophers failed to think about the implications of this vast expansion. In Wolin’s view, Rome had forgotten Aristotle’s warning that if a city-state became too large, it would not know how to practice the virtues necessary for a politics of the truly shared good—the imaginative and geographic expansion of political space paradoxically entailed a reduction of what
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