Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

apostles and continued largely by Syrian theology
was simple and evangelical. Fundamentally, it
rejected the union of church and state.
The church organization developed by the
papacy is hierarchal. Throughout its history it has
believed in the union of church and state.
Lucian died before Constantine had
consummated the union of the church with the
state. Lucian’s teaching, however, lived on to
plague imperial Christianity. The heritage he left
behind became embosomed in the Church in the
Wilderness. As late as the fifteenth century the
Catholic clergy displayed a bitter hatred to Greek
learning.[52] The knowledge of Greek, however,
remained in the bosom of the Church in the
Wilderness whether in Syria, northern Italy, among
the Celts, or in Oriental lands. And wherever the
true faith was held, the New Testament, verified
and transmitted by Lucian, was venerated and
followed.
Conditions continued thus until the dawn of the
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