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...most experienced Protestant collaborators with a Communist regime, Czech Theologian Joseph L. Hromadka of Prague, called upon the World Council "to combat the petrified notions, prejudices, self-isolation and inner estrangement that prevail in both East and West." De-estrangement is already well under way: United Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry of New York announced that the Russian Orthodox Moscow Patriarchate was ready to arrange a conference some time next winter with representatives of the World Council...
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...
...usual, there was no clear agreement on just what form that hope should take. Many churchmen, notably the Americans, emphasized "practical" action here and now. Said the World Presbyterian Alliance meeting at Princeton (where Hromadka spoke): "Strive to break down racial barriers . . . Promote understanding between classes . . . Provide an opportunity for every man ... to earn a livelihood . . ." Other churchmen, rallying round the eschatological view that sees the Christian hope at the end of the world and not in it, argued that Christianity's place was not primarily in political or ideological battles. Contemplating "the hydrogen and perhaps a cobalt bomb...
Altogether, Christianity could be seen as still a long way from the disintegration which Dr. Hromadka saw just around the corner. Before and since the Vandals sacked Hippo, Christianity survived many agonies. But the Vandals inside and outside the city in A.D. 1954 were a different breed from any who had come before. No Christian, 1,600 years after Saint Augustine's birth, could say with full confidence that the churches were winning the fight against them...