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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: POLITICAL PROTEST

Volume 2

THE CHRISTIAN ORIGINS OF SOCIAL REVOLT

THE CHRISTIAN ORIGINS OF SOCIAL REVOLT

WILLIAM DALE MORRIS

First published in 1949 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd

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THE CHRISTIAN ORIGINS OF SOCIAL REVOLT

WILLIAM DALE MORRIS

Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship
is hell: fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship
is death: and the deeds that ye do upon
the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye
do them, and the life that is in it, that shall
live on and on for ever, and each one of you
part of it, while many a mans life upon
the earth from the earth shall wane.
A Dream of John Ball WILLIAM MORRIS

FIRST PUBLISHED 1949

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I am indebted to George Allen & Unwin Ltd. and to the following authors for permission to quote from their books:

Social Struggles in the Middle Ages. M. Beer.

History of British Socialism. M. Beer.

Early British Economics. M. Beer.

A Short History of English Rural Life. Montague Fordham, M.A.

Cromwell and Communism. E. Bernstein.

English Radicalism, 1832-1852. S. Maccoby , Ph.D.

A History of the Fabian Society. E. R. Pease.

Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time. Harold Laski.

My grateful thanks are also due to the following authors and publishers for permission to quote from their books:

The Town Labourer, 1760-1832. J. L. & B. Hammond. Longmans Green & Co., Ltd.

A Century of Co-operation, G. D. H. Cole . Co-operative Union.

British Working Class Politics, 1832-1914. G. D. H. Cole. Geo. Routledge & Sons, Ltd.

The Common People, 1746-1938. G. D. H. Cole & R. Postgate . Methuen & Co., Ltd.

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. R. H. Tawney . John Murray.

The Chartist Movement. Mark Hovell , M.A. Manchester University Press.

The Medieval Village. G. G. Coulton . Cambridge University Press.

The Cambridge Modern History. Cambridge University Press.

The History of Trade Unionism. Sidney & Beatrice Webb,

Christian Socialism, 1848-1854. Charles E. Raven , M.A. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.

Keir Hardie. William Stewart . Independent Labour Party.

An Outline of Mans History. P. Gordon Walker . National Council of Labour Colleges.

Workers History of the Great Strike. Postgate, Wilkinson & Horrabin , National Council of Labour Colleges.

The Communist International. Franz Borkenau.

The Builders History. Raymond Postgate . National Federation of Building Trades Operatives.

The16thand17thCenturies. P. Gordon Walker , B. Litt., M.A. Victor Gollancz, Ltd.

left-Wing Democracy in the English Civil War. David W. Petegorsky . Victor Gollancz, Ltd.

Guilds in the Middle Ages. Georges Renard . G. Bell & Sons, Ltd.

William Dale Morris.

He hath put down the mighty from their scats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.

Luke. I , 52 and 53.

The Cenobites

Like all mass movements Christianity had many sources, and many currents flowed to make it a

Until the middle of the second century the constitution of the Christian communities was democratic and equalitarian. The whole of the members, in so far as they possessed the necessary qualifications, were eligible for the priestly office. They were called Elders (Presbyteroi, whence priests), and the most prominent members of the Elders were called Overseers (Episkopoi, whence bishop). Moreover, no distinction was made between clergy and laity; and it was only with the numerical growth of the Church, and the elaboration of the simple Christian teachings into a theological system that the clergy became a special class invested with ever greater powers as the Church won a position of importance and influence in the state. Then

the primitive Christian presbyters transformed themselves into a sacred oligarchy with privileges and special attributes: the small and persecuted community of poor fishermen and handworkers, practising piety and renunciation, became a powerful and affluent State Church. (Social Struggles in the Middle Ages, M. Beer, pp. 70-71.)

The theory of Socialism ... grew out of the philosophic, historical and economic theories that were elaborated by the educated representatives of the propertied classes, the intellectuals. The founders of modern scientific Socialism, Marx and Engels, themselves belonged to the bourgeois intelligentsia.

What is to be Done, Lenin.

Christianity (like modern Socialism) became more and more popular and respectable, and by the third century Christians were to be found in every walk of lifein the army and in government positions, at court, and among scholars, students and business men. For a time intermittent persecutions tended to purge the Church of insincere elements,

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