World Christianity and Marxism

Name: World Christianity and Marxism
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ISBN: 9780195119442

ISBN-10: 0195119444

ISBN-13: 9780195119442

Edition: 1998

Authors: Denis R. Janz

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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…

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List price: $175.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/9/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.21" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Denis Janz received the Ph.D. from the University of St. Michael's College, Toronto, in historical theology. He teaches in the religious studies department of Loyola University, New Orleans and has published articles on late medieval and Reformation topics in various scholarly journals.



Acknowledgments



Introduction



the Marxist Assault on Religion: Intellectual Foundations



the Christian World's Reaction from the Communist Manifesto to the Cold War



the Ussr



the United States



Poland



Nicaragua



Albania



China


Notes


Index