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Jesus movement

Proper noun

Meaning

(history) Christianity in its earliest form, the original religious movement of Jesus of Nazareth.

An American evangelical Christian movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement. Sara Zarr

Gregory Alan Thornbury chronicles the life of one of the seminal figures of “the Jesus movement.” Source: Internet

Proponents of an early date sometimes point out that the early 60's of the first century was a time when the Jesus movement was going into its second generation. Source: Internet

She also proposes that Johannine Christianity arose when Simonian mythology was appropriated by members of the early Jesus movement, who applied the mythology to Jesus. Source: Internet

Paul Duff on the other hand assumes they are Jews, like John himself, but Jews who are hostile to the Jesus movement. Source: Internet

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