Abstract
This article offers a magisterial survey of the history of Christian interaction with the wider culture. Part of the purpose is to indicate how the current success of charismatic churches is symptomatic of a general pattern of interaction rather than some major digression from it. Arguing that Christianity inserts into culture a repertoire selectively received according to type of social context, the author addresses motifs such as the collective and/or individual Victim, the righteous remnant, the heroic leader or Solomonic king of an elect nation or empire, and the martyr, heretic or dissident arguing that in Jesus the prophet-priest-king motif is combined with the Victim and martyr motif, in such a way as to undermine the sacral unity of religion and empire in successive waves of evangelisation, Pentecostalism being the latest.
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