the inevitable forces of history propelling themselves towards a utopia of workers and farmers as much it was a materialistic and industrial appropriation of the Christian concern for the poor, the Christian virtue of justice, and the notion of earth and city as a common treasury for everyone. The Hebrew Bible, the teaching of Jesus, the ethics of the apostles, and the social vision of the church fathers are saturated with concerns about the poor, oppression, injustice and God’s radical reordering of power in the hereafter. In the earliest days of the Jerusalem church, the believers held all
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