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could nonetheless have put an end

便会断送
to any prospect of freedom as in other civilizations.

其他文明中存在的自由前景
But Christianity's inheritance of

但是理性而好争辩的希腊哲学
the rational disputatious greek philosophy

继承了基督教的遗产
led to powerfully divisive quarrels

从而导致了关于上帝本性
about the nature of God and other theological questions,

和其他宗教问题的严重分歧
which was perfectly in

这种遗产有机地结合在
the tradition and uniquely in the tradition

传统中独一无二地与
of Greek philosophical debate.

希腊哲学争辩传统结合
What I am doing is making a claim

我想要公开声明一点
that even the judeo-Christian tradition,

即使是犹太基督教传统
which is such a different one from the Greeks,

也与希腊人的传统完全不同