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Bouck White

Geburtstag: 20. Oktober 1874
Todesdatum: 7. Januar 1951

Bouck White , Geburtsname Charles Browning White, war ein Gemeindepfarrer der Congregational Church, Anhänger des „Jesusism“, ein amerikanischer Sozialist, ein Autor, ein Töpfer und ein Einsiedler. Wikipedia

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„Rome … did not conquer the nations. She annexed them, by means of a coalition with the local capitalist group in each. … Wherever the strain between the local privileged class and its proletariat was intense, Rome found natural allies in the former.“

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— Bouck White

Quelle: The Call of the Carpenter (1914), p. 9

„It was the test of loyal citizenship among the Romans to seek out in every part of the world that which was most rare and valued, and bring it back to Rome as a gift. Thus her sons went forth and returned laden with richest trophies to lay at her feet. They brought to her pearls from India, gold chariots from Babylon, elephants from interior Africa, high-breasted virgins from the Greek isles, Phidian marbles from Athens. Paul also would be a bringer of gifts to the Rome that had honored him and his fathers with the high honor of citizenship. And the gift he would bring and lay at her feet would be the richest of them all—a religion.“

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— Bouck White

Quelle: The Call of the Carpenter (1914), p. 229

„This is one of the mutterings which they are muttering today: "The social well-being of the people, the upward movement of the non-propertied or labour classes to material welfare, is continually being obstructed by conceptions of political subserviency and passive obedience to despotic authority, which is directly traceable to Christian doctrine."“

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— Bouck White

Quelle: The Call of the Carpenter (1914), p. xvii

„The Roman Empire was a world-wide confederation of aristocracies for the perpetuation of human servitude.“

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— Bouck White

Quelle: The Call of the Carpenter (1914), p. 7

„In the countries of the ancient world, even before the formation of the empire, slavery was the basis of society. In each was a capitalist class and a slave class. The capitalists, however, were constantly in fear of slave insurrection. The dread clouded their sunshine by day, and nightmared their sleep; for they saw, piling up against them, a discontent hell-deep and heaven-high.“

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— Bouck White

Quelle: The Call of the Carpenter (1914), p. 8

„Mary knows that within her a child is gestating. For she thereupon composed a song. It is the greatest song in history. This "Magnificat" is the battle-hymn of democracy. Sensing a child within her, Mary feels herself equal to the Roman Empire; and she announces that the days of despotism are numbered. Caesar on his seven-hilled throne may sacrilegiously style himself Augustus, "the divine one." But Mary as confidently disallows him that title. Heaven is not on the side of privilege and oppression, she affirms, but is rather on the side of the trodden. Rome is great, but Galilee with God is greater. In this song three classes of people are objects of Our Lady's invective — "the proud," "the mighty," and "the rich."“

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And she passes upon them a threefold sentence: they are to be "scattered," "put down from their seats," and "sent empty away."
Quelle: The Call of the Carpenter (1914), p. 22

„Much of the New Testament is the narrative of the coalescence of the native princes with the Roman invader.“

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— Bouck White

Quelle: The Call of the Carpenter (1914), p. 9

„Paul's … no-work-no-eat doctrine was directed by him only against the poor. All around him were the rich, virginally innocent of toil, and yet who were gorged to the gullet.“

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— Bouck White

Quelle: The Call of the Carpenter (1914), p. 238

„Jerusalem was the home of the country's aristocracy. Like the local aristocracies in all the other countries of the world, these had lined up with the Romans — were federated with the invader.“

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— Bouck White

Quelle: The Call of the Carpenter (1914), p. 18