Wednesday, June 15, 2005

HOW CAN PROTESTANT THEOLOGIANS BE SO WRONG?

Another aspect of Abrams' book I found fascinating was his discussion of how Roman Catholics and the two major Protestant sects, the Czechoslovak Church and the Evangelical Church, responded to the 1945-1948 political situation in Czechoslovakia. Only the Roman Catholic theologians and intellectuals realized the many ethical and philosophical weakneses in Marxism. Only the Roman Catholic intellectuals saw a world view clash.

Protestant thinkers, instead of standing for biblical truth and allowing the Bible to speak to a variety of issues, tried to make their message conform to Marxism. Some were worse at this than others. Many actually thought a communist regime would benefit the church. Obviously the opposite happened.

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