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business model of salvation
Term or model used in this packet's account of Paul, Christianity, Roman power, or church doctrine.
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Key Notes
Paul copies the Roman paterfamilias model into church hierarchy, replacing patriarch, clients, and slaves with bishop, clergy, and followers.
Christian salvation turns slave labor from survival work into work for eternal paradise, making obedience more productive.
Jiang says Jesus speaks to slaves while Paul speaks to patriarchs, explaining the rapid elite adoption of Christianity.
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"Now what the patriarch will do is he will identify very promising slaves. Slaves with talent. He will turn them into clients. So clients..."
"and how because of the system, they were now able to assimilate these barbarians into the culture and maintain a social hierarchy, okay? And..."
"For everyone to obey the word of Jesus, which is really the word of Paul. And the third thing is, and this is really..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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