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Some Recent Works on Communism and Christianity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Paul J. Friedrich
Paul J. Friedrich*
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University of Munich
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Slavic Review , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , June 1963 , pp. 321 - 328
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1963

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References

1 Divini Redemptoris (1937), official Vatican text. For a detailed discussion of papal statements on communism, see Karl, Steger, Im Banne des Kommunismus (Lucerne, 1952), pp. 318 ff.Google Scholar

2 Bales, James D., Communism: Its Faith and Fallacies, an Exposition and Criticism (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1962), 214 ppGoogle Scholar. Bennett, John C., Christianity and Communism Today (1st ed., 1948) rev. and enl. (New York: Association Press, 1962), 188 ppGoogle Scholar. D'Arcy, Martin C., S.J., , Communism and Christianity (New York: Devin-Adair, 1957), 242 ppGoogle Scholar. Lester, DeKoster, Communism and Christian Faith (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1962), 158 pp.Google Scholar Johnson, F. Ernest, A Vital Encounter: Christianity and Communism (New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962), 192 ppGoogle Scholar. Lowry, Charles W., Communism and Christ (1st ed., 1952) new rev. ed. (New York: Collier Books, 1962), 221 ppGoogle Scholar. Sheen, Fulton J., Communism and the Conscience of the West (New York and Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1948), 247 ppGoogle Scholar. West, Charles C., Communism and the Theologians: Study of an Encounter (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1958), 399 ppGoogle Scholar. References to these works in the following text will be made by indicating author and page of the respective book.

3 For similar and mistaken interpretations of Marx, see, for example, Brunner, A., S.J., , “Zu den Fröhschriften von Karl Marx,” Stimmen der Zeit, CLVIII (1955/56), 351 Google Scholar; Daniélou, J., S.J., , The Lord of History (Chicago, 1958), p. 76.Google Scholar

4 For an example of this error, see the article by Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr., “The Failure of World Communism,” The Saturday Evening Post, May 19, 1962, p. 14 Google Scholar, in which communism is described as “a phenomenon of the transition from stagnation to development, a ‘disease’ (in Walt Rostow's phrase) of the modernization process.“

5 Cf. Karl Barth, Kirchliche Dogmatik, I, Part II (3rd ed.; 1945), 350 ff.

6 “The Common Man on Trial, ” Review of Politics, VI, No. 1 (1944), 28.

7 (Lucerne, 1934), cf. pp. 20-21.