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The history of the development of Christianity dates of course from the departure of Jesus from the world. But in Paul, this history has a new beginning; from this point we are able to trace it not only in its external features, but also in its inner connection. F. C. Baur traces the rise and development of Christianity through the first three centuries.

Thus, when we place ourselves at the point at which Christianity enters into the world’s history, and inquire into its general historical bearing, we find that it is a universal form of the religious consciousness which answers to the spirit of the age, and for which the history of the nations had long been preparing. But how comes Christianity to be this universal form of religion? Its claim to be so called is founded on the fact, that it has more and more pressed back the other religions, resolving
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