It seems to me that the supernovae are symbolical in this regard. Astronomers see them appear suddenly. They are particularly bright and dazzling stars, but we now know the excess of light is simply a last sign of termination and death. French Christianity being monarchist under Louis XIV, revolutionary in 1792, Napoleonic in 1800, republican in 1875, and in process of becoming socialist in 1950. The theologies of liberation and revolution seem to me to be simple attempts to adapt Christianity to circumstances.
People talk excessively about freedom when it is surpressed.
What constantly marked the life of Jesus was not nonviolence but in every situation the choice not to use power. This is infinitely different.