ward harry prof union theological (1 risultati)

Hardcover. 221 p.; 19.5 cm. 'And it is among the Communists, the militant wing of the Socialists, that we find the full development of the religious elements in that movement. .The faith behind this movement is threefold. It finds its pull in an hypothesis concerning the future of human society whichis saturated with perfectionism. It believes in the possibility of ending the exploitation of man by man. .through the organization of the world-wide cooperative commonwealth based on equitable and mutual economic planning. Along with the pull of the future,to which it links man in faith and effort, Communism unites an impulse from the past of man.Its push comes from the irresistible economic forces inwhichthe Communist believes as powerfully asthe Calvinist believes in Providence. In place of divine decrees he has the revelation of unfailing economic laws which operate onhis side & guarantee final victory. He parallels his predestinarian forerunner whose faith he derides by insist ing upon the dogma of economic determinism--which in its wider aspects he calls historic materialism--even while with sublime inconsistency he works miracles with the revolutionary will. Here, in the force making for an inevitable outcome of the human struggle, is found the God of those who proclaim the destruction of all Gods. .The third article in the faith of the Communists concerns the mission of the proletariat. They are the chosen people appointed by economic law to lead mankind into the promised land of the cooperative commonwealth. .The religion of Communism is also opposite to that of Jesus at the point of man's relation to the cosmos.' (p.198-201) Good dull blue cloth, small chip from spine. Ink underscoring.