Robert McAfee Brown, who held a bachelor of divinity degree from the Union Theological Seminary, had studied at Oxford, and was soon to complete his doctorate in the philosophy of religion at Columbia, published a lengthy criticism in Reinhold Niebuhr’s journal Christianity and Crisis, Brown summarized the underlying assumptions of Christian Economics as: Godless Communism is the major threat to civilization. Socialism is a halfway house on the way to Communism; Britain has reached that point and America is not far behind. Therefore, only a return to free enterprise, under God’s sanction, will
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