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From C. FitzSimons Allison's The Cruelty of Heresy

"The fact that orthodoxy has been at times badly represented ought not to obscure the larger fact that the essence of Christianity is resisted by a human desire for a religious justification of our self-centeredness, on the one hand, and for a religious encouragement of escape from life, on the other. The good news of Christ frees us from the prison of self-centeredness with the gift of an eternal Center and from an escape into death by the promise of abundant life." p. 178