13:21 May 18, 2002 |
German to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Religion / religion | |||||||
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4 -1 | Just as the dogma of early Christianity became formed only through its struggles against |
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Sentence option: Explanation: Just as early Christianity, only after struggling with Judeo-Christian movements, dogmatically established itself, so ... |
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sentence Explanation: As the dogmatic basis of nascent christianity takes shape only while struggling with judeo-christian influences... |
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- translation - Explanation: Just as Christianity struggled dogmatically against schools of early Judeo-Christian thought, so too ... As nascent Christianity implies the existence of earlier Judeo-Christian thought I have taken the liberty of mating 'junge' with 'judenchristliche Strömungen'. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2002-05-19 02:45:53 (GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- Special note to Fred Thompson: Scoring KudoZ is a means to an end; it is not the end. Your remarks about my being ungracious and gratuitous are out of place. If you can explain why you feel that my comment was misinformed, then there is ample room for discussion. |
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Just as the dogma of early Christianity became formed only through its struggles against Explanation: Judeo-Christian influences, so too . . . Isn't it amazing that so many different interpretations of the same short passage can be found? I have turned the sentence around a bit. I just don't believe that "dogmatisch ausgestaltet" means dogmatically formed (in this context). |
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