I'm personally a fan of the monastic movements within
Christiandom.
Epicurean (friendship) communities adopted the changes made by
governments without any fuss at all from my readings.
It wasn't really any change to them. Something new to do and
sink their teeth into.
Virtually unchanged, but under the protection and banner of the
Byzantine Empire (Eastern Church), the monasteries were free to
continue a long episode of Friends for hundreds of years.
What the West did to monastic life? Made it a little weird. Then
again, they also took away priest's wives in the West about 200
years post Schism.
The Eastern Church's monastic traditions don't seem to have
changed as much.
Anyway, that's my view on christian socialism. works on small
community levels.
The Wikipedia article seems to LEAP over about 1500 years of
history and land smack in the 19th century. Totally missing a
lot of stuff. But I'm too lazy to correct it.
