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Footnotes 1 Quoted by Alasdair MaIntyre in Marxism and Christianity (London, 1969), p.24. 2 K. Marx and F. Engels, On Religion (Moscow, no date), p.71. 3 Ibid., p.42. 4 Cf. (e.g.) Edwyn Bevan, Symbolism and Belief (London, 1962), esp. ‘The Justification of Belief, pp.325–45. 5 E.g. Helmut Gollwitzer, Die Marxistische Religionskritik and der Christliche Glaube (Tübingen, 1962); Eng. tr. The Christian Faith and the Marxist Criticism of Religion (New York, 1970). 6 LTK, vol. I (1957), cols. 632–3. 7 Secularisation and Moral Change (London, 1967), p.69. 8 Ibid., p.68. 9 The Essence of Christianity (New York, 1957), p.57. 10 Ibid., p.53. Cf. the celebrated passage of Dietrich Bonhoeffer; ‘Before God and with him we live without God. God allows himself to be edged out of the world and on to the cross’ (Letters and Papers from Prison [London, 1953], p.122). On the previous page Bonhoeffer had said; ‘There is no longer any need for God as a working hypothesis, whether in morals, politics or science. Nor is there any need for such a God in religion or philosophy (Feuerbach)’ (ibid., p.121). The identification of the ‘edging out’ of God with the N.T. kenosis is characteristic of Bonhoeffer, and
The Heythrop Journal – Wiley
Published: Apr 1, 1972
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