Concordia Theological Monthly
Article Title
Publication Date
11-1-1963
Document Type
Article
Keywords
religion, communism, faith, communist, atheism, christian, christianity, engels, lenin, marx, antireligious, atheistic
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Abstract
In his book Communism and Christ, Charles W. Lowry contends that we are living in a new religious age. As evidence he points to the post-World War II popular religious revival, to what he calls "a new priesthood" set up by psychiatry, to the influence of existential thought in philosophy and theology (consider Paul Tillich), and to the "collective neurosis" brought on by the crisis and anxieties of our hydrogen-missile age. "The final and conclusive proof that we have entered into a new religious era Lowry perceived in the expansion and menace of the "new universal salvation religion - Communism."
Disciplines
Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Scripture References in this Resource (separated by semi-colons)
Romans 2:16; Acts 19:24-41; 1 Timothy 6:6-15; Ephesians 6:6; Titus 2:9-10; Romans 13:1-5; Ephesians 5:22-23; 1 Timothy 2:11-12; 1 Corinthians 14:34-35; Matthew 20:18-19;
Submission Cost
Free
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Recommended Citation
Moellering, Ralph L.
(1963)
"Christianity and Communism -An Ideological Comparison,"
Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 34, Article 66.
Available at:
https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol34/iss1/66
