Word: hromadka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noting the 1,600th anniversary this year of Augustine's birth, Czechoslovakia's Dr. Joseph L. Hromadka said at Princeton: "Saint Augustine . . . laid-in a way-a foundation for ... what we have called Christian civilization...
What Hope? Theologian Hromadka says he is no Communist, and his brethren largely believe him. But he thinks it fit to collaborate with his country's Communist regime, and for that reason it was easy to dismiss Hromadka's speech as the melancholy result of peaceful coexistence and a sharpened sense of doom. Nonetheless, his warnings, did constitute a challenge. In the U.S., it was a good week to look for some answers. Hundreds of Chris tian churchmen from all over the world were meeting in half a dozen U.S. cities to discuss the condition of their faith...
Present from behind the Iron Curtain was Czechoslovakia's Joseph Hromadka, wartime lecturer at Princeton and Dean of Prague's state-controlled Theological Faculty, who collaborates with the Communists. Dr. Hromadka listened as Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia said pointedly: "When in the considered and prayerful judgment of a church [its] freedom . . . is essentially abridged by state or society, it is the duty of the church to say no to the state and no to the society...
...Religion of Marxists: "Religion, of course, they consider an ideology and an opiate. In all this there is much with which Hromadka believes Christians would have to agree ... We must confess that [religion] has often been an opiate, that it has carried along much of superstition and legend, that it has been made a tool of exploitation...
Relations with World Protestantism: "It was very encouraging to Hromadka . . . that he was permitted to come to Lund, which had not seemed at all a high probability. Nobody told 'him what to say, or even asked him what he intended...