Ferdinand Christian Baur

οὐ δεῖ παραδόσεσιν ἀνθρώπων ἀκολουθεῖν ἐπ’ ἀθετήσει ἐντολῆς Θεοῦ (Basil the Great, Moralia XII, 2) How is it possible that Christianity, a Galilean insurrectionary movement fighting against political oppression and religious corruption through spiritual transformation, has turned into the political ideology of a dominantly Western, conservative, and right-winged population? What is the historical development that…