A different image of Christianity
In the past I have mostly imagined Christianity - in its unified, disembodied form of being - as a castle of sorts where the different denominations and proper churches are different form of rooms and regions in this wide castle- space. There is a common center and the walls are made of the doctrines all christians share together, but some rooms are locked from the others and all sections isn't available for everyone. This image is all well and good, but recently something else came to me that focuses in a better way that Christianity is an actual living being inside the fractal cosmos of the Lord. The three main churches of Christianity; Catholicism, Orthodoxy and (yuck) Protestantism corresponds to three-parted division of the body; Head, Heart and Belly. Catholicism is quite clearly the Head. Not even the Orthodox disputes that the seat of Peter should have a leading role of the Christian church and in any case the Catholic dominance world wide is resulting that when someone fr...