Religion: The Temptation

Europe's leading Protestant theologians are Karl Earth of Basle and Emil Brunner of Zurich. For years their religious arguments have set the world's theological seismographs to jiggling. Last week, through a paraphrase prepared by Dr. E. G. Homrighausen of Princeton Theological Seminary and published in the British Christian News-letter and the U.S. Christian Century, the English-speaking world was registering the rumbles of another Barth-Brunner set-to. The timely subject: Protestantism v. Communism.

It began in April when Earth, recently returned from a lecture trip in Hungary at the invitation of the Hungarian Reformed Church, published an article on his visit in a Swiss...

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