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Conflict 1: Otherworldly ethics of Christ is threat to the existing culture

A: Christ in Jewish Culture (Rabbi Klauser's thoughts):
Jesus abstracted religion & ethics from rest of social life, establishing a Kingdom not of this world -(Jesus cast aside requirements of national life/ not reform culture/ not enlarge culture but abolish its connection with religion)
while Judaism is not only a religion or ethics but is thetotal of all the needs of the nation, placed on a religious basis.
Klausner concludes: Jesus ignored everything concerned with material civilization: in this sense he does not belong to civilization

Thus..

B. Various groups see a Foe of cultural interests & defend their culture against gospel (both nationalistic and communistic & humanistic and democratic societies)
Critics argue:
-On one hand that Christ directs hopes toward another world, and so deprives people of a motivation to engage in the labor of conserving social heritage (or buids contempt for present order).
"Therefore a Celsus moves from attack on Chrstianity to an appeal to belevers to stop endangering a threatend empre by the withdrawl from the publc tasks of defense and reconstruction."
-On the other hand: feel Christians don’t care enough about temporal existence to struggle for the destruction of an old order and building a new one ( ie. Marx & Lennon)

my thoughts: What about the Lord's prayer?/following involves the allowance of His actions through us...so active/redemptive or transformative