Foundations of Christianity (Routledge Revivals)
A Study in Christian Origins
- 475 pages
- English
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First published in 1925, Karl Kautsky presents a Marxist history of Christianity and Christian society. Divided into four key sections, the book begins by considering the personality of Jesus as portrayed within Pagan and Christian sources and highlighting the Church's difficulty in presenting a unified and concurrent image of Jesus and interpretation of His words. Next, Kautsky analyses the structure of Roman society, with particular emphasis on the slave-holding system, the Roman State and the historiography of the period. In the third section, an early history of the Jewish people is presented, whilst the final section discusses the beginnings of Christianity and the social struggles present within early Christian society. This is a fascinating reissue, which will be of particular interest to students of Church History, Christian theology and the various interpretations of Jesus.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE THE PERSONALITY OF JESUS
- CHAPTER I. THE PAGAN SOURCES
- CHAPTER II. THE CHRISTIAN SOURCES
- CHAPTER III. THE STRUGGLE FOR THE IMAGE OF JESUS
- PART TWO ROMAN SOCIETY IN THE IMPERIAL PERIOD
- CHAPTER I. THE SLAVE-HOLDING SYSTEM
- a. Property in Land; b. Domestic Slavery; c. Slavery in the Production of Commodities; d. The Technical Inferiority of the Slave-Holding System; e. The Economic Decline
- CHAPTER II. THE LIFE OF THE STATE
- a. The State and Trade; b. Patricians and Plebeians; c. The Roman State; d. Usury; e. Absolutism
- CHAPTER III. CURRENTS OF THOUGHT IN THE ROMAN IMPERIAL PERIOD
- a. Weakening of Social Ties; b. Credulity; c. The Resort to Lying; d. Humanitarianism; e. Internationalism; f. The Tendency to Religion; g. Monotheism
- CHAPTER I. THE SLAVE-HOLDING SYSTEM
- PART THREE THE JEWS
- CHAPTER I. THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL
- a. Semitic Tribal Migrations; b. Palestine; c. The Conception of God in Ancient Israel; d. Trade and Philosophy; e. Trade and Nationality; f. Canaan a Thoroughfare of Nations; g. Class Struggles in Israel; h. The Downfall of Israel; i. The First Destruction of Jerusalem
- CHAPTER II. THE JEWS AFTER THE EXILE
- a. Banishment; b. The Jewish Diaspora; c. The Jewish Propaganda; d, Hatred of the Jews; e. Jerusalem; f. The Sadducees; g. The Pharisees; h. The Zealots; i. The Essenes
- CHAPTER I. THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL
- PART FOUR THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIANITY
- CHAPTER I. THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION
- a. The Proletarian Character of the Congregation; b. Class Hatred; c. Communism; d. The Objections to Communism; e. Contempt for Labor; f. The Destruction of the Family
- CHAPTER II. THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF THE MESSIAH
- a. The Coming of the Kingdom of God; b. The Ancestry of Jesus; c. Jesus as a Rebel; d. The Resurrection of the Crucified; e. The International Redeemer
- CHAPTER III. JEWISH CHRISTIANS AND PAGAN CHRISTIANS
- a. The Agitation among the Pagans; b. The Opposition between Jews and Christians
- CHAPTER IV. THE STORY OF CHRISTâS PASSION
- CHAPTER V. THE EVOLUTION OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CONGREGATION
- a. Proletarians and Slaves; b. The Decline of Communism; c. Apostles, Prophets and Teachers; d. The Bishop; e. The Monastery
- CHAPTER VI. CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIALISM
- CHAPTER I. THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION
- INDEX
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Title Page 1
- Frontmatter 1
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE THE PERSONALITY OF JESUS
- PART TWO ROMAN SOCIETY IN THE IMPERIAL PERIOD
- PART THREE THE JEWS
- PART FOUR THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIANITY
- INDEX