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By Mark Shiffman 23 May 2009 No Comment

If you aren’t already a fan of Rémi Brague, the most learned man alive, you will be after you read this interview with him about his new book of essays on medieval Jewish, Christian and Islamic thought. I only offer for reflection the marvelous last words with which he responds to a question about our “post-Christian” condition:

Who can say that Christianity has had the time to translate the totality of its contents into institutions? I have the impression that instead we are still at the beginning stages of Christianity.

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