every person created in God’s image to the full realization of his powers of mind and body, and this includes full and free citizenship with democracy as a corollary. We should always distinguish carefully a non-Christian conception of the rights of people to do what they like, and a Christian conception of their right to become by God’s grace their own truest selves. In this way Christianity both endorses, and criticizes and corrects, the ideal of democracy. 3. How then are these and other Christian
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