The Problem of Evil in the Church

I'm wondering, is there a relationship between the church's new function as becoming like a militaristic institutional body that must face off with the devil? And at the same time condemning it to participate in the devil's own sense of temporality. I think Hildegard von Bingen is a good indicator of this, right? Where like, it's, it's to build the church in such a way that it can face off against the devil. Whereas, you know, prior to that, we see mysticism as closer to a sort of gnosis, right? It's completely outside the expanse of the church. Once the fervor of that teaching starts to die down,

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