Abstract:
Milan Machovec makes a contribution to our knowledge of Jesus by
looking at the evidence about him through a Marxist lens. In his book
'A Marxist looks at Jesus', he attemps to understand, from a positive, yet
still Marxist viewpoint, the essence of Jesus' message. He makes a radical,
unbridgeable distinction between the Jesus of history and the kerygmatic
Christ, between what he calls the 'image of the man Jesus of
Nazareth' and the 'dogmatized image of Jesus Christ'. Machovec
represents a Marxism that is somehow 'different'. He insists that genuine
Marxist atheism is not a counter-dogma, not simply atheism turned
upside down, but a matter of critical method.
