There was a time, in the early centuries of the church, and especially in the Eastern half of the imperial world, when it was still generally assumed that there were mysteries of the faith that should be reserved for only the very few, the Christian intellectual elite or pnevmatikoi, “spiritual persons” (a term used even by Paul), while the faith of the more common variety of believers should be nourished only with simpler, coarser, more infantile versions of doctrine.
—David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved
Indeed, love one another, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, is, should be, and needs to be sufficient for most in order that we may avoid imbecilic mass heresies such as fundamentalism, fantastic end time prophesies, prosperity teaching and a hundred other departures from the gospel of Christ.
I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.
--1 Corinthians 3:2
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