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. Hecker
- 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
- I. Fascist Anti-Individualism
- II. Atheist and Christian Individualism
- III. The Solutions
- IV. “Soul” versus Mind
- V. Spann, Hegel and Marx
- VI. Klages, Nietzsche and Marx
- VII. Racialism and Mysticism
- VIII. Vitalism Victorious
- IX. The Sociology of Fascism
- II. Moral Sanctions and the Social Function or Religion - Bruno Meier
- I. Calvinists, Baptists, and the Ascetic Motives
- II. Legalism and a Corrupt Social Order
- III. The Pessimistic-Idealistic Attitude
- IV. Positivism and Non-Religious Moralism
- V. Religion and the Social Movement
- III. Science, Religion and Socialism - Joseph Needham
- I. Introduction
- II. The Position of the Scientific Worker
- III. The Treason of the Scholars
- IV. The Concept of the Kingdom
- V. Philosophy, History, Science, Art and Religion
- VI. Against Philosophy and Science
- VII. Against Art and History
- VIII. Against and Religion
- IX. Scientific Opium
- X. “Christianity Theology the Grandmother of Bolshevism”
- IV. Christian Politics and Communist Religion - Reinhold Niebuhr
- I. Introduction
- II. The Inadequacy of Christian Politics
- III. Communism as a Religion
- IV. Towards a Christian Political Ethic
- V. Communism the Heir to the Christian Tradition - John Lewis
- I. Priest and Prophet
- II. Secular and Sacred
- III. Religion and Science
- IV. Religion and Reform
- V. Dualism in Philosophy and Religion
- VI. The Economic Basis of Dualism
- VII. Rationalism and Irrationalism in Ethics
- VIII. Transition
- IX. Apocalyptic
- 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)