record as components of a surreptitiously overlooked charter for an imperial church with a simple mission to expand through 'conversion'. These documents he correctly describes as revealing and representative, but what they represent is an 'imperial Christianity' that is unintelligible except as a component of an imperial order that no longer exists.
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