Merold Westphal suggested as a Lenten exercise that one could read Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche as prophets of original sin.
Dostoevsky was clearly the Christian analogue of (and triumph over) Nietzsche. I wonder who would be the analogues to Marx and Freud.
Dostoevsky was clearly the Christian analogue of (and triumph over) Nietzsche. I wonder who would be the analogues to Marx and Freud.
Maybe Christoph Blumhardt (and his dad) for Marx, but not sure about Freud. Certainly I think Augustine triumphs over Freud in his probing psychology, but that's an anachronism. Freud brought our the deep-seated sin in our emotional and psychological make-up back to a Europe who lived in blissful ignorance. He's Augustine sans grace, freedom, and life everlasting.
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Agree with you on Freud.
DeleteJN Darby and Dispensationalism as an analogue of Marx and Marxism
ReplyDeleteLOL. Well said.
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