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Term or model used in this packet's account of Paul, Christianity, Roman power, or church doctrine.
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paterfamilias
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So let's review last class. We discussed the mission of Jesus. Who is Jesus? Jesus was a messenger from the monad who reminded us..."
Key Notes
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Jesus threatened Rome because slaves who no longer feared death could stop behaving as property.
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Paul's core trick is to move attention from Jesus' words and inner spark to belief in Jesus as the object of salvation.
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Jiang presents Christianity as Paul's synthesis of Jewish eschatology, Greek mystery religion, and Roman patriarchal structure.
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Paul copies the Roman paterfamilias model into church hierarchy, replacing patriarch, clients, and slaves with bishop, clergy, and followers.
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Christian salvation turns slave labor from survival work into work for eternal paradise, making obedience more productive.
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Jiang says Jesus speaks to slaves while Paul speaks to patriarchs, explaining the rapid elite adoption of Christianity.
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"So let's review last class. We discussed the mission of Jesus. Who is Jesus? Jesus was a messenger from the monad who reminded us..."
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"He was very wealthy. And so we say he's a Hellenized Jew. And he's probably working for the Roman Empire as a spy or..."
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"...the Roman culture. So the Roman social structure is called the paterfamilias. Okay? And how the system works is at the very top there's..."
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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..."
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"and how because of the system, they were now able to assimilate these barbarians into the culture and maintain a social hierarchy, okay? And..."
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"For everyone to obey the word of Jesus, which is really the word of Paul. And the third thing is, and this is really..."
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"...builds the structure of Christianity, the church system, based on the paterfamilias system of the Romans, it will spread even quicker. And eventually, these..."
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"...the Polish church was a hierarchy as well modeled on the paterfamilias, okay? So at the top was the bishop, okay? And the bishop..."
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"...the church to participate in the patron -client relationship of the paterfamilias, which meant that they would now invite the local aristocrat to become..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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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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Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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