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clogic-191741	Boer, Roland	Socialism, Christianity, and Rosa Luxemburg	2019	31	.pdf	application/pdf	13252	563	61	A Little Church History Now for Luxemburg’s rather intriguing re-reading of Church history, which seeks to provide a thumb-nail sketch of the way the role and place of the Church changed within the shifting economic formations of some 1900 years. And the reason for Luxemburg’s step into Church history lies in her desire to find the way out of an anomaly: if the New Testament presents a picture of the first Christians as devoted to justice for the poor, to communism in living and to providing refuge for the oppressed, how did the Church end up as it is now, as a friend of the rich and powerful, as a supporter of the status quo, as an institution with a distinct financial and political interest in ensuring its place within the economic infrastructure?	cache/clogic-191741.pdf	txt/clogic-191741.txt