Jesus and Marx: From Gospel to Ideology

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"Reading Ellul's critique of Christian Marxism is like watching a surgeon. . . . Time after time he locates and slices away our cultural compromises of the Gospel. . . . Why do we submit to his incisions? Because there are so few in all the world who can teli us the truth. And he is quite possibly the most deft surgeon of all." IAT POINT does a theology become an ideology? How can a Christian distinguish the two? Jacques Ellul has always taken pains to differentiate them, but in this book he provides both a theoretical framework and important examples. Somé popular theologies, particularly those that attempt to intertwine biblical theology with Marxist thought, fali into the trap of reaching "theological" conclusions by other means, Ellul believes, so that we cannot consider them as true theologies. From both a biblical-theological and sociopolitical perspective Ellul examines the attempt to relate Christianity to Marxist thought. By reviewing in detail several key Marxist-Christian... Tovább

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"Reading Ellul's critique of Christian Marxism is like watching a surgeon. . . . Time after time he locates and slices away our cultural compromises of the Gospel. . . . Why do we submit to his incisions? Because there are so few in all the world who can teli us the truth. And he is quite possibly the most deft surgeon of all." IAT POINT does a theology become an ideology? How can a Christian distinguish the two? Jacques Ellul has always taken pains to differentiate them, but in this book he provides both a theoretical framework and important examples. Somé popular theologies, particularly those that attempt to intertwine biblical theology with Marxist thought, fali into the trap of reaching "theological" conclusions by other means, Ellul believes, so that we cannot consider them as true theologies. From both a biblical-theological and sociopolitical perspective Ellul examines the attempt to relate Christianity to Marxist thought. By reviewing in detail several key Marxist-Christian books, Ellul exposes the weaknesses of so-ealled Marxist Christianity (which he says is neither Marxist nor Christian), and argues that the biblical perspective takes exception to all poiitical power, leaving Christian anarchism as the realistic revolutionary option. The preface by translator Joyce Main Hanks provides an excellent introduction to the book, showing how it fits into Ellul's thought and how it relates to Ellul's previous work. Auburn Theological Seminary WALTER WINK I Vissza