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(the theologian's).. attitude to the possibility of world peace was marked.. by two errors of approach. The first, which the Christians alone hold, is indeed typically Christian: the under-estimation (despite the peace proclamation if Luke 2:14) of peace in this world, combined with a complacent retreat to the peace of the soul in pious expectation of "eternal peace" in the hereafter. "When a Christian speaks of redemption, he is thinking first of his own soul... But human society and the structures which support it do not come into these conceptions; for him they remain unredeemed..
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