I'm not a Christian but: The divinity - or the very very high value, if you like - of the individual, self-sacrifice and forgiveness.
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Replying to @tjatypmenokej @ReasonableTom2
Not unique to Christianity & individuality isn't even part of it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @ReasonableTom2
Sure, it may not be unique to Christianity, but it is certainly most developed by Western Christianity. The individual as an agent...
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Replying to @tjatypmenokej @ReasonableTom2
Yes, Christianity discouraged that. I wrote a thing about it - Augustinian Confessionalism which was fairly standard for centuries.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @ReasonableTom2
Christianity discouraged its own very central doctrine of the divine value of the individual soul? Okay
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Replying to @tjatypmenokej @ReasonableTom2
The soul was not intended to be individual but an aspect of God. It became fractured after the fall but the aim was to restore its unity.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @ReasonableTom2
Recover the image of God. Augustine, in particular focused on this in de Trinitate & his conception dominated western Christianity.
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I linked my essay on this which looks closely at it &how it was being practiced in high to late medieval confessionalism. (That's what I do)
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