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NOTES

1) World Conference on Church and Society, Official Report, Geneva 1967,p#52,

2) Two recent statements illustrate this common conviction and the different

oonsequences drawn from it. Bishop L, Newbigin of Madras says in his work entitled "Honest Religion for Secular Man" (1966), polemizing with Bishop J.A.T, Robinson: Christian faith insists, for the sake of the human integrity of roan, on the Biblically conceived reality of God. Our Christian insistence on a "personal God", as a csitre, as the living and sovereign "other party", is identical with the insistence on man's real humanity. And R»Garaudy said in Salzburg: "We, Marxists, fight for man; the logic of this fight leads us to atheism", (Christentum und Marxismus - heute, Gespräch der Paulus-Gesellschaft, Wien-Pronkfurt-Zürich 1966, p. 62). The one professes to the personal God in the interest of man's humanity, the other refuses him in the name of the sam« But why could not those who "believe with faith in heavens" - as Aragon wrote about the years of resistance - and those who do not believe meet in certain fields of their common interest?

3) Humanismus, Theol, Studien 28, Zurich 1960, p, 14.

4l Official Report, p, 52,

ö) L'Espérance chpétienne dans le monde d'auj curd'hui, Evanston 1954, p, 56,

6) Cf, György Márkus: Marxizmus és anthropologia (Marxism and Anthropology),

Akadémia Kiadá, Budapest 1956.

7) Kirchliche Dogmatik íll/2, Zoliikon-Zűr ich 1948, p. 46,

8) As for Christian and Marxist anthropology see P. 'ELlich’s study: "Der

Mensch im Christentum uni Marxismus" (Das religiöse Fundament des moralischen Handelns, Schriften zur Ethik und zum Menschenbild, Gesammelte Werke XII, Stuttgart 1965, pp, 194—209) in which he investigates the analogy and difference between the Marxist and Christian image of man according to the viewpoints also taken by us: essence - alienation - re-instating man to the true essence of human being.

9) Gf. P. Lehmann: Ethik als Antwort, München 1956, p, 214 , 278,

10) P, Tillich: Klassenkampf und religiöser Sozialismus in the second volume

of his Collected Works: "Christentum und soziale Gestaltung", Stuttgart 1962, p. 179,

11) Cf. Charles West; Community-Christian and Secular Man, in: a preparatory

volume of Geneva entitled "Man in Community", Genéva 1966, p, 335,

12) J.M. Lochman; Die Bedeutung geschichtlicher Ereignisse für ethische Entscheidungen, Theol. Studien 72, Zürich 1963, p. 17*

13) Richard Shaull says in his study "Revolutionary Change in Theological

Perspective" (in the volume entitled "Christian Social Ethics in a Changing World, An Ecumenical Theological Inquiry", edited by John Bennett, London 1966, 23 sqq.): "... social revolution is

the primary question to be solved by our generation" (p. 24). Re-