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World Christianity and Marxism (Hardcover, New)
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World Christianity and Marxism (Hardcover, New)
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Denis Janz argues that the encounter with Marxism has been the
defining event for twentieth century Christianity. No other
worldview shook Christianity more dramatically and no other
movement had as profound an impact on so many. Now the Cold War is
over and as we approach the end of the century we need, Janz says,
to ask ourselves what happened.
This book is the first unified and comprehensive attempt to
analyze this historic meeting between these two antagonistic worlds
of thought and action. The intellectual foundation of this
antagonism is to be found in Karl Marx himself, and thus the book
begins with an account of Marx's assault on Christianity. All the
diverse philosophical and political manifestations of Marxism were
ultimately rooted in Marx's thought, and supporters based their
greater or lesser hostilities toward Christianity on their reading
of his critique. Janz follows this with an overview of Christian
responses to Marx, extending from the mid-19th century to the onset
of the Cold War. He argues that within this time frame
Christianity's negation of Marx was not absolute; the loud "no" to
Marx bore with it an important, if muted, "yes."
With this intellectual groundwork in place, Janz turns to an
examination of the encounter as it unfolded in specific national
contexts: the United States, the Soviet Union, Poland, Nicaragua,
Cuba, China, and Albania. The experiences of these countries varied
widely, from Poland where Christianity maintained its strongest
independence, to Nicaragua where a Christian alliance with Marxism
contributed to revolutionary change, to Albania where a Stalinist
government attempted to abolish religion entirely. From this survey
emerges theevidence that world Christianity has clearly
internalized some of the prominent features of its antagonist,
suggesting that the "Marxist project" is not as utterly defunct as
many have assumed.
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