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The apostle who carried Christianity into the Greco-Roman world, Paul established salvation by grace rather than Mosaic law, waived circumcision for gentiles and preached submission to constituted authority.
Political topics
Saint Paul (Paul of Tarsus) leans further toward religious than 90% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where Saint Paul (Paul of Tarsus) stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Saint Paul (Paul of Tarsus) sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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The closest among the 263 ideologies
Greco-Roman philosophy that teaches living according to reason and nature, accepting with serenity what lies beyond one's control, cultivating duty, self-mastery and virtue above pleasure, and recognizing a natural law common to all rational humanity.
Social doctrine of the Catholic Church, combining traditionalist morality and defense of life with concern for social justice, subsidiarity and worker dignity, under the hierarchical authority of the papacy and canon law.
Nineteenth-century constitutional monarchy model in which the monarch exercises a fourth Moderating Power above the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary, arbitrating conflicts and guaranteeing stability over an agrarian economy.
The most distant ideology
Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian35%
Bishop and theologian of Roman North Africa, Augustine formulated the doctrines of original sin and grace, wrote the Confessions and The City of God, and defended imperial coercion against Donatist heretics.
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