Red Theology

Roland Boer is Xin Ao Distinguished Overseas Professor in Philosophy at Renmin University of China. His research concerns the complex intersections between Marxism and religion, having recently published Stalin: From Theology to the Philosophy of Socialism in Power (2017).

• PrefaceSeries Editor PrefaceIntroduction1 Karl Kautsky’s Forerunners of Modern Socialism1 The Manifold Types of Heretical Communism2 Müntzer and Münster3 Theology and Revolution2 Early Christian Communism as a Political Myth1 Reconstruction: Kautsky2 Reconstruction: Rosa Luxemburg3 Consumption Versus Production, or, Transition4 The Question of History5 Political Myth3 Reaction and Revolution: How to Read the Apostle Paul1 Anti- or Pro- Empire?2 Contradiction Analysis3 Imaginary Resolution4 Conclusion4 Omnia Sunt Communia: Theology and Politics in Luther Blissett’sQ1  Q and the Marxist Tradition2 Issues3 Conclusion: How to Be Truly Radical5 John Calvin and the Problem of Ungodly Rulers1 Two Kingdoms or One2 Anarchy or Tyranny3 Ungodly Rulers3.1  Obey!3.2  God’s Agents3.3  Magistrates3.4  Let Princes Hear and be Afraid!4 Subject Only in the Lord5 Conclusion6 From Luther to Marx and Engels1 Human Nature2 Engels, Luther and Thomas Müntzer3 Marx and Luther3.1 Two Revolutionary Stages3.2 A Revolutionary Reformation?3.3The New Revolution4 Conclusion7 Heilsgeschichte, History and Marxism1 Calculating the Day1.1  Bruno Bauer and Marx1.2  Engels and the Apocalypse1.3  Early Eschatological Communism2 Moving Mountains: Concerning Narrative Structure2.1  Stirner’s Ego and Christ2.2  Towards Contradiction3 Relativising Theology8 Revisiting the Marxist-Christian Dialogue1 Limitations2 From Then...3 To Now3.1  Human Nature3.2  Alienation3.3  Prometheus and the Future4 Conclusion: Reconsidering the Background9 Althusser and the Possibility of Religious Revolution1 Trapped in the Past2 Sources of Hope2.1  From Social Revolution...2.2  To Spiritual Revolution3 Conclusion10 By Science and Prayer: The Christian Communism of Farnham Maynard1 Science and Prayer2 Modulations of an Anglo-Catholic Dialectic2.1  Discerning the Tension between Revolution and Reaction2.2  Christianity and Socialism3 Conclusion: On Enthusiasm11 Christian Communism and the Bolsheviks1 Peasant Socialism2 Twisting over Tolstoy3 God-Builders4 Conclusion12 The Taiping Revolution: Christian Communism Comes to China1 The Dream2 Hong and the Bible3 Revolution and Community4 Interpreting the Taiping Revolution5 Mao Zedong and the Taiping Revolution13 Chinese Christian Communism in the Early Twentieth Century1 Revolutionary Times and Influences2 Christianity and Communism2.1  Method2.2  Reconstruction2.3  Identity and Difference3 Conclusion: Christianity and Marxism with Chinese Characteristics?14 Religion and Revolution in Korea1 Chondoism2 Protestant Christians3 The DPRK Today4 Juche Theology?ConclusionBibliography