Many who regard themselves as Christians have abandoned
the time-honored explanations of the Creeds, and even assume
that Christianity need not be more than an ethical system. One
party holds that, if only the Marxists would welcome Christian
fellowship, or at least tolerate full religious liberty, Christianity
could take on a new life and Communism itself become universally
acceptable. Others without going so far think that Christianity is
too attached to bourgeois social theories and would have it take
over the social teaching of Marx on capitalism and property,
equality and liberty. There are some, again, who believe that
Christians have much to learn from the philosophy of the dialectic
and the close connection of theory with practice.
COMMUNISM AND CHRISTIANITY
M. C. D’ARCY
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