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Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Divinity at the Andover Newton Theological School. Digitized copy supplied by Diana Yount, Trask Library, Andover Newton Theological School, on March 16, 2012 to Coates Library, Special Collections and Archives, Trinity University. COMMUNISM AS A RELIGION By Claude W. Black, Jr. This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Divinity at the Andover Newton Theological School, and is approved by ~~/ Department of Social Ethics Date of Approval. --------------------------------------------- I !: 'I II !, I 'I I I .I· I :I :.! i I I I' I Chapter Page I. Toward an; Understanding of Religion 1 II. Toward an Understanding of Communism 15 III., Communism as a Religion 29 IV. A Christian Critique of Communism 39 i. PURPOSE: To seek an understanding of religion and the major tenets of Uarxian Communism_in an effort to determine the treatment of 'communism as a religion. LIMITS: This study is limited in its examination or religion, for all of the problems involved in a stuay of rel1gion were no fully d.i scussect,· but tne cone lusi one reached had the authority of outstanding men in the t"iela of rel.1gion. The study of Marxian Communism was also limited to its major tenets, which are as follows: (1.) materialistic interpretation of history, (2.) the theory of class struggle, and (3.) the theory of value. METHOD: This study is approached with an exarr.ination of both...
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