when-orthodoxy-displaced-communion-the-church-reached-for-caesar-s-tools

When right belief came to matter more than right relationship, the Church protected the Christ it confessed by means that Christ had refused: imperial decree, coercion, exile. Even Augustine called such force an act of love. But communion was always the ground from which belief grew, not its reward. Rests on: [[the-kingdom-of-god-is-a-rival-claim-about-how-power-moves]]