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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Let us grant, once and for all, that God's intercourse with His creatures is not confined to the old and New Covenants, and that Christianity includes many doctrines accessible to the unaided human reason, and advocates many practices which are the natural outcome of ordinary human activities. |
 | | And those traditions were directly communicated by Christ Himself to His Apostle, as he tells us in many passages "For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you" (I Cor., xi, 23), and again "For I delivered unto you first of all what I received" (I cor., xv, 3). |
 | | History shows us that, in establishing Christianity as an institution, He was content that on its human side its organization should be subject to the same laws of growth and development as other human institutions. |
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