Christianity and the Social Revolution

Table of Contents

Part I - Socialism in Historical Christianity

• I. The Good Life - Wystan Auden
  • I. The Politic of the Gospels
  • II. The Means of Realisation
  • III. The Political Mind
  • IV. Psychology and Religion
  • V. Communism and Psychology
  • VI. Communism and Religion
  • VII. The Christian Dilemma
• II. Jesus - Conrad Noel
  • I. The World Plan of Jesus
  • II. The Temptations
  • III. The Social Gospel of the Old Testament
  • IV. The Gospel of the Kingdom
  • V. Jesus, Militant
• III. The Jesus of History - John Lewis
  • I. Jesus or Christ
  • II. Loss and Gain
  • III. The Apocalyptic Jesus
  • IV. Marxism and Apocalyptic
  • V. Jesus' Quarrel with the Church
  • VI. The Christ of the Mystery Cults
• IV. The Early Church - Gilbert Clive Binyon
  • I. The Church and the Pagan World
  • II. The Creed-Gospel and the Social Problem
  • III. Christianity and the Old Testament
  • IV. The Hope of Divine Interventions
  • V. The Aloofness of the Church
  • VI. The Church To-day
• V. Communism in the Middle Age - R. Pascal
  • I. Economic and Political Determinants of Medieval Communism
  • II. Religious Communism
  • III. The Peasant Risings
  • IV. Conclusion
• VI. Laud, the Levellers, and the Virtuosi - Joseph Needham
  • I. Seventeenth-Century England
  • II. The Laudian Divines
  • III. The Levellers
  • IV. The Virtuosi
  • V. The Rise of Mechanistic Economics
  • VI. Conclusion
• VII. Christian Socialism in England in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Gilbert Clive Binyon
  • I. Socialism's Need of the Christian Philosophy
  • II. Christian Socialists
  • III. Recent Christian Social Movements
  • IV. Christian Sociology
  • V. Conlusion

Part II - Communism and Religion

• I. The Early Development of Marx's Thought - John Macmurray
  • I. Introduction
  • II. The Transition from “Idea“ to Actuality
  • III. Development of a Dialectical Sociology
  • IV. Bourgeois Democracy
  • V. The “Earthly and the “Heavenly” Citizenship
  • VI. The Economic Factor
• II. What Communism Stands for - John Cornford
  • I. Primitive and Contemporary Communism Contrasted
  • II. Why Capitalism Declines
  • III. The Period Permanent Crisis and War
  • IV. The Limitation of Production under Capitalism
  • V. The Historic Mission of the Working Class
  • VI. The Rise of Scientific Socialism
  • VII. The Character of Reorganised Society
  • VIII. The Capitalist State and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
  • IX. The Pre-Conditions of Revolution
• III. Communism and Religion - Ivan Levisky
  • I. Comparative Religion
  • II. Religion and Science
  • III. The Metaphysical Basis of Communism
  • IV. Bourgeois Rationalism
  • V. Religion in Russia
  • VI. Is Communism a Religion?
  • VII. Religion in the West
  • VIII. Catholicism, Communism and the Masses
  • IX. Reformism in the Church
  • X. The Incompatibility of Marxism and Christianity
  • XI. Conclusion
• IV. Christianity and Communism in the Light of the Russian Revolution - Julius F. Hekcer
  • I. The Approach of the Problem
  • II. The Disintegration of the Russian Orthodox Church
  • III. Efforts at Rejuvenating the Orthodox Church under Communism
  • IV. Nonconformity and Communism
  • V. The Communist Point of View on the Problem
  • VI. What in Place of Religion?
• V. Communism and Morality
  • I. Morals and History
  • II. Property
  • III. Sex and Marriage after the Revolution
  • IV. The Class Struggle
  • V. Some Problems of Transition
  • VI. Man the Measure

Part III - Dies Irae

• I. The Essence of Fascism - Karl Polanyi
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• II. Moral Sanctions and the Social Function or Religion - Bruno Meier
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• III. Science, Religion and Socialism - Joseph Needham
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• IV. Christian Politics and Communist Religion - Reinhold Niebuhr
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• V. Communism the Heir to the Christian Tradition - John Lewis
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• VI. Christianity and Communism: Towards a Synthesis - John Macmurray

Contributors

Gilbert Clive Binyon	Vicar of Bilsdale, Yorkshire
John Cornford	Trinity College, Cambridge
Julius F. Hecker	Moscow University
Ivan Levisky
John Lewis	Lecturer in Social Philosophy under the Cambridge Extra-Mural Board
John Macmurray	Grote Professor of Philosophy, London University
Bruno Meier
A.L. Morton
Joseph Needham	Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge
Reinhard Niebuhr	Professor of Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York City
Conrad Noel	Vicar of Thaxted, Essex
R. Pascal	Lecturer in German, Cambridge University
Karl Polanyi

Text Informations

Reference:
Original Publication: Christianity and the Social Revolution (with LEWIS John and KITCHIN Donald K. (dirs.)), London, Victor Gollancz, x p.
KPA: 13/05 (contract), 13/07 (reviews)

See also

• In Abraham Rotstein "Weekend Notes": IV, (2) XII.