1 John -theme of love-the counterpart of loyalty to Christ and the brothers is the rejection of cultural society though there is no statement here that the Christian is obliged to participate in the work of the social institutions, to maintain or convert them, neither is there any express rejection of the state or of property as such...
end of the world seemed near to the writier ...so without concern for transitory culture.
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2nd Century
present Christianity as a way of life quite separate from culture
the line was sharply drawn between teh new people and the old society...