Isidore cast unified Christianity against a fragmented non-Christian world

Evidence

Yet within this unity lie a plethora of distinctions, so many pieces in a divine jigsaw puzzle. And beyond geography and ethnography, the fundamental division between a unified Christianity and a disunified cacophony of pagans, heretics, and Jews. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 159

Categorization

• XREF: An early template for the unified-self-versus-fragmented-other binary later seen in Orientalist constructions of Islamdom versus Christendom.