Karl Barth, Johannes Hamel How to Serve God in a Marxist Land

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. After this analysis of the biblical materials relevant to his subject, Hamel devotes the remainder of the essay to an attempt to apply these biblical insights to the central problem of the proclamation of the gospel in the Marxist world. There are a number of points in this section that are worth highlighting for our purposes. For one thing, the author counsels us at considerable length to avoid attacking or defend ing the Marxist order for what can only be called crude anti-communist or pro-communist reasons. He gives telling examples of the mentality of each position.