Title: Jesus and Marx : from gospel to ideology /
Authors: Ellul, Jacques.
Publisher: Eerdmans,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Communism and Christianity.; Ideology.
Contents: Christianity and ideologies -- Challenge -- Christians and socialism : conformity -- Origins of Marxist Christianity -- A case in point -- Marginal notes -- Early Marxist-Christian contact -- The "death of God" and Marxism -- Theology of service, theology of the poor, horizontal theology -- Liberation theologies and Marxist Christians -- Service theology : a sample text - Matthew 9:2-13 -- Sin and preaching -- Mercy and piety -- Presuppositions and interpretation -- A materialist reading of the gospels -- Preliminary considerations and points of agreement -- Method -- Materialism -- Marxism -- Social classes and the state -- History -- Implications -- Inductive theology : the quest for a materialist theology -- Deductive and inductive theology -- The uniqueness of faith -- Anarchism and Christianity -- Anarchism and socialism as potential allies of Christianity -- Anarchism's quarrel with Christianity -- Political power in the Bible -- Christians as anarchists.