A Critical Interpretation of Hans Kung?s Historical Analysis of the Dev

A Critical description of Hans Kungs Historical Analysis of the Development of the Hierarchical ChurchThe beginnings of the Christian perform are shrouded in mystery. With the lack of evidence about that snip in history, it is hard to draw conclusions of any type. However, the historical analyst, Hans Kung, has written a book to shed some light on the subject. In this book, Kung discusses his persuasion on the development of the early church, and its hierarchical structure. In the following paper, I will address two of the chapters of Kungs book, The Beginnings of the wee Church and The Early Catholic Church. The points that I will focus on are The makeup and persecution of the early church community and why it was that instruction, and how, according to Kung, the founders of universality went against how Jesus wanted the church to be governed by establishing a hierarchy. The Christian church, according to Kung, began at Pentecost. When the Holy Spirit came to the apostles an d told them to go out and prophesy the teachings of Jesus it meant that the apostles could claim an identity separate from Judaism. The majority of the first Christians were Jews from capital of Israel that believed that Jesus was the Messiah promised to the Jews in the Hebrew Testament and they believed in the resurrection. The earlier Christian community did not want in any room to part company with the Jewish community or nation, but to endure integrated into Judaism.(P. 13). The differences in the beliefs of the Jews and the Jewish-Christians naturally created a separation in the two sorts. When the Christian disciples started going out and preaching their faith to people, the Roman empire saw them as a threat to their power and decided that Christianity would feed to be stopped. Because Christianity and Judaism were one, the two most effective carriages to persecute the Christians was to sue their leaders, and to destroy the Jewish places of worship. After the Romans bur ned the Temple of Jerusalem for the min time, a council of Pharisees decided that the Christians were to be excommunicated from the Jewish temple.If not for the early connection to the Jewish faith, the Christian religion would never have established as a major religion. The idea of having one God, called monotheism, was too radi... ... what they thought, there would be no extravagance in the lives of the church officials. Likewise, if the church truly believed in what Jesus taught, they would not be shunning the participation of women in the church rather, they would be embracing all the people that truly wished to participate in the vocation of a priest or any position in the church for that matter. In conclusion, the early Christian church had its problems in who was true into the new faith and why they were persecuted for it. This was because, during the height of the Roman Empire, any group of people that could be dangerous to Roman ideology would not be tolerated, and the R omans would attempt to put a stop to it. These persecutions of the Christians, however, strengthened, not weakened the Christian church to a point that there would be no way to disperse the community of believers. The main reason that the church stayed together identical it did was because of the early establishment of a hierarchy, which, while Kung speculates, would not be the way that Jesus would have wanted the church to be governed, worked in establishing the Christian community into a world religion.