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Jesus movement

Jesus movement proper noun: christianity in its earliest form, the original religious movement of Jesus of Nazareth.

Proper noun

the Jesus movement

  1. Christianity in its earliest form, the original religious movement of Jesus of Nazareth.
    • But at a very early stage in the Jesus movement the tendency towards an opening up of Judaism became evident – in all three forms of religious expression.1999, Gerd Theissen, translated by John Bowden, A Theory of Primitive Christian Religion, page 165
    • But the divinity of Jesus is as historically vexing as it is theologically crucial. Any assertion about this doctrine's theological centrality has a provocative, historical correlate: the early Jesus movement (first?) became Christianity when regular, public and sanctioned devotion was offered to...1999, Carey C. Newman, “From (Wright's) Jesus to (the Church's) Christ: Can We Get There from Here?”, in Jesus and the Restoration of Israel, pages 281–82
  2. An American evangelical Christian movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Questions about Jesus movement

What does Jesus movement mean?
Jesus movement means christianity in its earliest form, the original religious movement of Jesus of Nazareth.
What part of speech is Jesus movement?
Jesus movement is a proper noun.

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