"Christianity appeared in the world not as a clergy performing rites without a doctrine for the benefit of any one they could attract, like the eastern cults … not as a digest of intellectual assertions for discussion, like Greek philosophy, but as the Israel of God, renewed in Jesus. Above all as a life (a ‘way’), a life determined by God in all its aspects: religious, moral and social; a life which could really be lived only in the ‘Covenant’ with God and, therefore, in the society instituted through this Covenant by God Himself."