Enjoying this series tremendously. How much do you see the economic elements of nascent Christianity such as communism and Jubilee filtering into a politics of resurrection? The works of economist Michael Hudson sees the revolutionary populism surrounding debt forgiveness/clean slates as vital to Christ’s role as an apocalyptic preacher that soon becomes an unattainable dream that is pushed out to the far end of the apocalyptic horizon once the delayed Parousia became apparent.
Christ, like the Gracci brothers and even Julius Caesar, and the Greek tyrants like Solon found themselves fatally at odds with their contemporary aristocracies when they either promised or pushed for these measures. In many ways the enduring economic legacy of Greco-Roman culture that persists to this day is the sacrosanct status of debt agreements.
Somehow, given our own historical situation, this element seems particularly important.
Enjoying this series tremendously. How much do you see the economic elements of nascent Christianity such as communism and Jubilee filtering into a politics of resurrection? The works of economist Michael Hudson sees the revolutionary populism surrounding debt forgiveness/clean slates as vital to Christ’s role as an apocalyptic preacher that soon becomes an unattainable dream that is pushed out to the far end of the apocalyptic horizon once the delayed Parousia became apparent.
Christ, like the Gracci brothers and even Julius Caesar, and the Greek tyrants like Solon found themselves fatally at odds with their contemporary aristocracies when they either promised or pushed for these measures. In many ways the enduring economic legacy of Greco-Roman culture that persists to this day is the sacrosanct status of debt agreements.
Somehow, given our own historical situation, this element seems particularly important.
I am not a biblical scholar. I am nowhere near being up-to-date on scholarship regarding early Christianity or Judaism in this time. I wonder in context of Hellenism and Judaism if any readers are familiar with this book. https://vridar.org/series-index/russell-gmirkin-plato-and-the-hebrew-bible/