Thinking Greek rather than Hebrew

Without its Jewish roots, the Church became like a ship cut off from its moorings, drifting to wherever it might run aground.

This began to happen around AD315 when Constantine declared the whole Roman Empire was now Christian.  But whilst it meant Jews had to renounce their Jewishness to become believers, the jolt was less obvious to Gentiles.  For them, replacing things like Shabbat with Sunday, Passover with Easter, Jerusalem with Rome, Hebrew names with Greek names, Yeshua with 'Jesus' and Messiah with 'Christ', and the Hebraic calendar with Pope Gregory's, was apparently no big deal.

However, hidden within this was the switch from Hebraic thinking to Greek thinking, that worked like points on a rail track being switched from one route to another to cause trains departing from the same station to end up at destinations far apart.                       

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength." (Deuteronomy 6:5)

Hebraic thinking is exemplified by the Shema's call to Israel to live the whole of life as divine encounter  with no division between spiritual and physical life (Deuteronomy 6:4-9).

Whilst Greek thinking embodied dualism in which their heads could do philosophy whilst their bodies indulged in leisure and pleasure.  So, regarding truth, the Greek track was relative and subjective, typified by Pilate saying "What is truth?"  (John 18:38), whereas the Hebraic track led to the absolute truth revealed by the God of Israel.

And in this present age of mis- and dis- information this has led to the situation where, instead of declaring the absolute truth of the Hebraic Scriptures to shine light into the darkness, a large part of the western Church has foundered on the need to be politically correct. The consequence of which is immeasurable for both the Church and the world.