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Jesus Christ: Historical Materialism, Class Conflict, and the Jesus Movement

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The Transformation of Christianity to Feudalism

The idea of constructing Christianity is something that is potentially not Jewish and the idea that Jesus is the God in distinction from the God of the Jews. Well I mean it becomes a lot more complicated obviously but those kinds of things start to emerge I think towards the end of the first century and into the second century. And eventually this movement keeps spreading through these big networks across the Roman Empire and becomes the religion of the Empire after a few centuries. But at the same time those tensions between these kind of reactionary elements if you like well perhaps we shouldn't even be calling them reactionary elements and my revolutionary impulses they don't go away.

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