Collective, What is the Christian Left?

What has religion to do with Socialism?

The immediate barrier which is preventing this universal commonwealth and which is [4]

Does the Christian Left believe in God?

Some people will argue that Christianity so interpreted is not Christian at all, because it leaves out the definition all mention of God. This objection is an example of the way in which our religious thinking has become confused. Traditional Christian teaching has produced a picture of God as someone who exists in a separate spiritual world and who must be looked for in a heaven beyond the clouds. But Jesus insisted that we should find God only through Himself, as man. We must look for God in our own personal relationships, in our love of men and women, in our experience here and now. If we look for God elsewhere, He will be no more than an idea in our minds.

Why should the Christian Left be a separate organisation?

The question is sometimes asked why the Christian Left itself with other [5] Christian Socialist organisations, and in what respects it considers is standpoint to be sufficiently distinctive to warrant a separate existence.

…reinterpretation of Christianity which will form the basis of the Christianity of the Socialist age. The attempt to carry out this work … […]

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Miss J. Jordan
172 Russell Court,
London, W.C.1

Text Informations

Christian Left Pamphlet No. 1, 1938
Src: British LIbrary