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You might also say it's a departure of both.
"Christ crucified is foolishness to the Greek, and a stumbling block to the jew."
Foolishness because the cross is a shameful death. Stumbling because it's a curse.
Christianity reorients the mind. For the Greek what is death becomes life, for the jew what is a curse becomes glory.
Christ for the pagan becomes the archetypal hero inducted into his kingdom by a crown of thorns. A kingdom whose citizenship is achieved through death (baptism).
For the jew the fulfillment of the law and the promised messiah, who Lords over zion bringing us peace. Peace won by a final sacrifice (communion)
Christianity has forgotten that Jesus is a warrior-king [christus victor] and if a king, a terror to his enemies and a friend to his servants.
Every failure of the modern church can be relegated to "Jesus is an unqualified friend". But he is only a friend to this who are his, and even then only as much as a father is a friend to a son, a king to a servant. Hierarchy and order remains. As do demands of lordship.
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