Preface
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Introduction
1 Karl Kautsky’s Forerunners of Modern Socialism
1 The Manifold Types of Heretical Communism
2 Müntzer and Münster
3 Theology and Revolution
2 Early Christian Communism as a Political Myth
1 Reconstruction: Kautsky
2 Reconstruction: Rosa Luxemburg
3 Consumption Versus Production, or, Transition
4 The Question of History
5 Political Myth
3 Reaction and Revolution: How to Read the Apostle Paul
1 Anti- or Pro- Empire?
2 Contradiction Analysis
3 Imaginary Resolution
4 Conclusion
4 Omnia Sunt Communia: Theology and Politics in Luther Blissett’sQ
1 Q and the Marxist Tradition
2 Issues
3 Conclusion: How to Be Truly Radical
5 John Calvin and the Problem of Ungodly Rulers
1 Two Kingdoms or One
2 Anarchy or Tyranny
3 Ungodly Rulers
3.1 Obey!
3.2 God’s Agents
3.3 Magistrates
3.4 Let Princes Hear and be Afraid!
4 Subject Only in the Lord
5 Conclusion
6 From Luther to Marx and Engels
1 Human Nature
2 Engels, Luther and Thomas Müntzer
3 Marx and Luther
3.1 Two Revolutionary Stages
3.2 A Revolutionary Reformation?
3.3The New Revolution
4 Conclusion
7 Heilsgeschichte, History and Marxism
1 Calculating the Day
1.1 Bruno Bauer and Marx
1.2 Engels and the Apocalypse
1.3 Early Eschatological Communism
2 Moving Mountains: Concerning Narrative Structure
2.1 Stirner’s Ego and Christ
2.2 Towards Contradiction
3 Relativising Theology
8 Revisiting the Marxist-Christian Dialogue
1 Limitations
2 From Then...
3 To Now
3.1 Human Nature
3.2 Alienation
3.3 Prometheus and the Future
4 Conclusion: Reconsidering the Background
9 Althusser and the Possibility of Religious Revolution
1 Trapped in the Past
2 Sources of Hope
2.1 From Social Revolution...
2.2 To Spiritual Revolution
3 Conclusion
10 By Science and Prayer: The Christian Communism of Farnham Maynard
1 Science and Prayer
2 Modulations of an Anglo-Catholic Dialectic
2.1 Discerning the Tension between Revolution and Reaction
2.2 Christianity and Socialism
3 Conclusion: On Enthusiasm
11 Christian Communism and the Bolsheviks
1 Peasant Socialism
2 Twisting over Tolstoy
3 God-Builders
4 Conclusion
12 The Taiping Revolution: Christian Communism Comes to China
1 The Dream
2 Hong and the Bible
3 Revolution and Community
4 Interpreting the Taiping Revolution
5 Mao Zedong and the Taiping Revolution
13 Chinese Christian Communism in the Early Twentieth Century
1 Revolutionary Times and Influences
2 Christianity and Communism
2.1 Method
2.2 Reconstruction
2.3 Identity and Difference
3 Conclusion: Christianity and Marxism with Chinese Characteristics?
14 Religion and Revolution in Korea
1 Chondoism
2 Protestant Christians
3 The DPRK Today
4 Juche Theology?
Conclusion
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