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...18th General Council of the World Presbyterian Alliance waited for the showdown. Even before the first session began, the delegates (representing 76 Reformed and Presbyterian church bodies with more than 45 million members) shifted their interest from theology to a theologian. In the limelight: Czechoslovakia's Dr. Joseph Hromadka, 70, wartime lecturer at Princeton, dean of Prague's Communist-controlled Amos Comenius Theological Faculty, a wheel in the World Council of Churches and a vice president of the Presbyterian Alliance. Hromadka has attended every postwar ecumenical congress, has raised serious problems about how Western Christians are to regard...
...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...
...elected the entire executive committee, including-despite objections-Communist-collaborating Dr. Josef Hromadka of Czechoslovakia...