“At the surface level, there is the expected veneer of Christian…

Question Answered step-by-step “At the surface level, there is the expected veneer of Christian… “At the surface level, there is the expected veneer of Christian disdain for these sister religions.  But not far beneath that surface rhetoric, there is a powerful perception of the superiority of the material and the intellectual cultures of these other peoples who are not of the True Faith.” (p.156) The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menoca. Does this qoute above basically parallels with this: Petrus Alfonsi knew little of nothing of these momentous events when they took place, a decade and more after his baptism. Just as he left his ancestral religion behind in the public baptism in the heart of Huesca, along with his birth name of Moses ( Petrus is thus sometimes referred to as Moses Sefardi, or “Moses the Spaniard”), he departed his newly Christian homeland shortly after his conversion. Arts & Humanities Religious Studies LBST 250 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)