Word: hromadka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot sit idly by while Professor Hromadka, champion of the Communist cause, is received into Christian fellowship and honored as a great Christian leader," cried Fundamentalist Minister Carl McIntire, president of the violently antiCommunist, anti-ecumenical and minor-league International Council of Christian Churches...
...past Theologian Hromadka had said that he is no Communist, and his brethren had largely believed him; now they expected a more detailed reply. Hromadka obliged them. His position, in effect: 1) the church must be maintained at all cost in Communist countries; 2) Communism is not really hostile to religion; 3) Christianity might eventually transform and Christianize Communism...
Insisting that "the church cannot be confined to one political bloc," Hromadka explained that he had learned that "as a Christian. I must be prepared for any situation and not rely on established regimes . . . God is greater than the greatest of doctrine man can produce . . . I and my church continue to give testimony of faith. Regardless of conditions, we perpetuate the living church. We must love all men, whether they believe or not." Hromadka bemoaned Communism's atheism, which "weakens church prestige and authority, but also challenges churches to purify themselves." He admitted that "I have certain understanding...
...words had their intended effect: the delegates, in spite of his evident urging to collaboration with atheists, backed Hromadka's stand. Hurriedly, a Mclntire "truth squad" printed and distributed a 70-page, documented indictment against Hromadka, pointed out that...
...time this bill of particulars reached the delegates. Vice President Hromadka had already left on his way home to Prague. Said Dr. John Mackay, ex-president of Princeton Theological Seminary: "Dr. Hromadka does his utmost to adjust himself as much as a Christian can to a political situation. Christians have had to do this ever since the Roman Empire. There is more religious freedom in Communist Czechoslovakia today than in Catholic Spain...