Author: Thomas M. Mongar
Publisher: University Press of Amer
ISBN: 9780761807759
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This book focuses on Jesus before Christianity and Marx before Communism. It argues not only that both men sought to end moral and economic estrangement forever, but that Jesus' relational revolution failed because it lacked the foundation of Marx's emancipatory revolution. The absence of the emancipatory conditions for moral regeneration encouraged Jesus' followers to transform his teachings and practices into fetishes and illusions of the Christian Church. Jesus made the same mistake as the later Young Hegelians, who assumed that a change of mind (in Jesus' case, a change of heart) would change the world. Marx's emancipatory revolution also failed, partly because the conditions for abolishing estrangement were absent, and partly because his theories had been misunderstood. The result was the "crude and thoughtless communism" he warned against in the Ecomonic and Philosophical Manuscripts. Now that Marx's theory has been recovered in full and most of the conditions for liberation are present in the West, the stage has been set for the renewal of the emancipatory revolution, which should dissolve what remains of existing Communism at the same time it lifts the burdens of estrangement, spiritual impoverishment, and statism from the shoulders of those living in the bourgeois nations of the West and Third World.
Only with Marx and Jesus
Author: Thomas M. Mongar
Publisher: University Press of Amer
ISBN: 9780761807759
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This book focuses on Jesus before Christianity and Marx before Communism. It argues not only that both men sought to end moral and economic estrangement forever, but that Jesus' relational revolution failed because it lacked the foundation of Marx's emancipatory revolution. The absence of the emancipatory conditions for moral regeneration encouraged Jesus' followers to transform his teachings and practices into fetishes and illusions of the Christian Church. Jesus made the same mistake as the later Young Hegelians, who assumed that a change of mind (in Jesus' case, a change of heart) would change the world. Marx's emancipatory revolution also failed, partly because the conditions for abolishing estrangement were absent, and partly because his theories had been misunderstood. The result was the "crude and thoughtless communism" he warned against in the Ecomonic and Philosophical Manuscripts. Now that Marx's theory has been recovered in full and most of the conditions for liberation are present in the West, the stage has been set for the renewal of the emancipatory revolution, which should dissolve what remains of existing Communism at the same time it lifts the burdens of estrangement, spiritual impoverishment, and statism from the shoulders of those living in the bourgeois nations of the West and Third World.
Publisher: University Press of Amer
ISBN: 9780761807759
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This book focuses on Jesus before Christianity and Marx before Communism. It argues not only that both men sought to end moral and economic estrangement forever, but that Jesus' relational revolution failed because it lacked the foundation of Marx's emancipatory revolution. The absence of the emancipatory conditions for moral regeneration encouraged Jesus' followers to transform his teachings and practices into fetishes and illusions of the Christian Church. Jesus made the same mistake as the later Young Hegelians, who assumed that a change of mind (in Jesus' case, a change of heart) would change the world. Marx's emancipatory revolution also failed, partly because the conditions for abolishing estrangement were absent, and partly because his theories had been misunderstood. The result was the "crude and thoughtless communism" he warned against in the Ecomonic and Philosophical Manuscripts. Now that Marx's theory has been recovered in full and most of the conditions for liberation are present in the West, the stage has been set for the renewal of the emancipatory revolution, which should dissolve what remains of existing Communism at the same time it lifts the burdens of estrangement, spiritual impoverishment, and statism from the shoulders of those living in the bourgeois nations of the West and Third World.
Jesus and Marx
Author: Jacques Ellul
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Marx Against the Marxists
Author: José Porfirio Miranda
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Examines the moral foundations of Marx's ideology and how modern Marxism has strayed from his concern for human liberty and moral conscience.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Examines the moral foundations of Marx's ideology and how modern Marxism has strayed from his concern for human liberty and moral conscience.
Marx and the Bible
Author: Jose Porfirio Miranda
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1592444857
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1974.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1592444857
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1974.
Christians Against Christianity
Author: Obery M. Hendricks, Jr.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807057401
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A timely and galvanizing work that examines how right-wing evangelical Christians have veered from an admirable faith to a pernicious, destructive ideology. Today’s right-wing Evangelical Christianity stands as the very antithesis of the message of Jesus Christ. In his new book, Christians Against Christianity, best-selling author and religious scholar Obery M. Hendricks Jr. challenges right-wing evangelicals on the terrain of their own religious claims, exposing the falsehoods, contradictions, and misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia, their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims, and their ungodly alliance with big business against the interests of American workers. He scathingly indicts the religious leaders who helped facilitate the rise of the notoriously unchristian Donald Trump, likening them to the “court jesters” and hypocritical priestly sycophants of bygone eras who unquestioningly supported their sovereigns’ every act, no matter how hateful or destructive to those they were supposed to serve. In the wake of the deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, Christians Against Christianity is a clarion call to stand up to the hypocrisy of the evangelical Right, as well as a guide for Christians to return their faith to the life-affirming message that Jesus brought and died for. What Hendricks offers is a provocative diagnosis, an urgent warning that right-wing evangelicals’ aspirations for Christian nationalist supremacy are a looming threat, not only to Christian decency but to democracy itself. What they offer to America is anything but good news.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807057401
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A timely and galvanizing work that examines how right-wing evangelical Christians have veered from an admirable faith to a pernicious, destructive ideology. Today’s right-wing Evangelical Christianity stands as the very antithesis of the message of Jesus Christ. In his new book, Christians Against Christianity, best-selling author and religious scholar Obery M. Hendricks Jr. challenges right-wing evangelicals on the terrain of their own religious claims, exposing the falsehoods, contradictions, and misuses of the Bible that are embedded in their rabid homophobia, their poorly veiled racism and demonizing of immigrants and Muslims, and their ungodly alliance with big business against the interests of American workers. He scathingly indicts the religious leaders who helped facilitate the rise of the notoriously unchristian Donald Trump, likening them to the “court jesters” and hypocritical priestly sycophants of bygone eras who unquestioningly supported their sovereigns’ every act, no matter how hateful or destructive to those they were supposed to serve. In the wake of the deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, Christians Against Christianity is a clarion call to stand up to the hypocrisy of the evangelical Right, as well as a guide for Christians to return their faith to the life-affirming message that Jesus brought and died for. What Hendricks offers is a provocative diagnosis, an urgent warning that right-wing evangelicals’ aspirations for Christian nationalist supremacy are a looming threat, not only to Christian decency but to democracy itself. What they offer to America is anything but good news.
Without Marx Or Jesus
Author: Jean-François Revel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social history
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social history
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Jesus Before Christianity
Author: Albert Nolan
Publisher: David Philip Publishers
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The second edition of this classic has been revised and its language made more gender-inclusive.
Publisher: David Philip Publishers
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The second edition of this classic has been revised and its language made more gender-inclusive.
Class Struggle in the New Testament
Author: Robert J. Myles
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1978702086
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Class Struggle in the New Testament engages the political and economic realities of the first century to unmask the mediation of class through several New Testament texts and traditions. Essays span a range of subfields, presenting class struggle as the motor force of history by responding to recent debates, historical data, and new evidence on the political-economic world of Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels. Chapters address collective struggles in the Gospels; the Roman military and class; the usefulness of categories like peasant, retainer, and middling groups for understanding the world of Jesus; the class basis behind the origin of archangels; the Gospels as products of elite culture; the implication of capitalist ideology upon biblical interpretation; and the New Testament’s use of slavery metaphors, populist features, and gifting practices. This book will become a definitive reference point for future discussion.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1978702086
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Class Struggle in the New Testament engages the political and economic realities of the first century to unmask the mediation of class through several New Testament texts and traditions. Essays span a range of subfields, presenting class struggle as the motor force of history by responding to recent debates, historical data, and new evidence on the political-economic world of Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels. Chapters address collective struggles in the Gospels; the Roman military and class; the usefulness of categories like peasant, retainer, and middling groups for understanding the world of Jesus; the class basis behind the origin of archangels; the Gospels as products of elite culture; the implication of capitalist ideology upon biblical interpretation; and the New Testament’s use of slavery metaphors, populist features, and gifting practices. This book will become a definitive reference point for future discussion.
Foundations of Christianity
Author: Karl Kautsky
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Economic Philosophy of Jesus Christ Vs The Religious Philosophy of Karl Marx
Author: Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Publisher: Summit University Press
ISBN: 9781609883188
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher: Summit University Press
ISBN: 9781609883188
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description