Notice what then happens. When we see the victory of Jesus in relation to the biblical Passover tradition, reshaped through the Jewish longing for the “forgiveness of sins” as a liberating event within history, we see the early Christian movement not as a “religion” in the modern sense at all, but as a complete new way of being human in the world and for the world. People talk glibly of the “rise of Christianity” or even of Jesus as the “founder of Christianity” without realizing that to give Jesus’s movement a name like that (an “-ity” alongside all the “-isms”) is at once to diminish it, to
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