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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> 15-06-03 14:49, alex wrote:
Christianity without Jesus seems to make no sense. Jesus as non
inherited word does not fit good with biserica and cruce as inherited
words, don't you find?
I don't. "Without Jesus" is not the same as "without the word J-E-S-U-
S". Christianity without the latter is perfectly thinkable. You'll
find the same even in English. The word <church> goes back to early
(apparently pre-Christian!) West Germanic *kirik(j)o:n (ultimately a
loan from Greek),
ODS says 'kirke' is borrowed from OE, so that seems OK (Denmark was
partly christianised from England). But what the heck would pagan
Germani need a church for? And if the word passed through Gothic, why
doesn't it occur, of all places, in the Bible?
Torsten
PS Those with tender nerves look away - Trithemius claims the early
Germani used Greek for service in their temples.