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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, born around 80 BC, served in the Roman army under Caesar and specialized in the design and construction of artillery machines. His duties took him to what are now Spain and France and as far away as North Africa. Vitruvius later became an architect and worked on a temple, no longer in existence, in the town of Fano in
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the future of the church is ancient:
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
It is this voice and this truth that is the way that challenges ‘the present age’, Kierkegaard’s and our own – where being a Christian has at times come to mean little more than the common human (‘a good person’) – where Christianity is one of many ‘equally valid’ ways, universal common human values mixed with, at best, colourful and, at worst,
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His private house was even to be decorated with a triangular gable (or pediment), to give it the appearance of a temple, the home of a god.