Dr. John Rao begins by showing that Pluralism is not really a new phenomenon, and that it always suffers from similar problems in whatever age it appears. The ancient "Hellenistic" world, the world that followed Alexander the Great's conquests and whose culture expanded into the Roman Empire was also pluralist - and familiarly trouble - in character. Taken from: My End is My Beginning: The Analogy of Contemporary Christianity With its Ancient Setting - 2001 VonHildebrand Institute