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In Slaughter et al’s article Spiritual Partners in Christian Asceticism the modified values on the churches idea can be seen after the legalization of Christianity and the formation of more organized religious bodies and the idea asceticism. With legalization the church becomes more organized. A strong hierarchy of Christianity can be found in Jerome task by the Pope Damasus, “the revision and recreation of a single standard version of the Bible out of the existing Latin translations.” (Slaughter et al, 149). The fact that the Pope assigns Jeromen a task is testament enough to notice a type of hierarchy in the Church. For a more universal and agreed upon religion a standard Bible would solidate this idea of Christianity as a single organization.

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