Superstitious Materialism

Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam is probably one of the best known churchmen in the United States. He is certainly one of the most doctored. He is D.D.3, Litt.D.3,D.Sc., L.H.D.2, S.T.D.3, LL.D.6, and Th. D.—and only one of his nineteen degrees was bestowed by an institution behind the Iron Curtain.

He has a remarkable record. For the benefit of reviewers his publishers have crowded into 126 square inches a list of his honors and affiliations, but the list is incomplete, for it omits the numerous activities in which he had to admit participation when he was under oath before the congressional Committee on Un-American Activities in July 1953. It does not include the significant facts that his name appears in almost every discussion of the Communist Party’s extensive infiltration of the American clergy, and that he is usually a member of the various Councils, Conferences, and Associations that from time to time discover a singular coincidence between Christian doctrine and whatever policy happens at the moment to suit the convenience of the Kremlin. There is no mention of his connection with American University, which boldly championed Professor Herbert Fuchs so long as there was hope that he would defy the Committee on Un-American Activities and immediately discharged him when he testified against Communist conspirators (see national review, Jan. 25, 1956).

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Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam is probably one of the best known churchmen in the United States. He is certainly one of the most doctored. He is D.D.3, Litt.D.3,D.Sc., L.H.D.2, S.T.D.3, LL.D.6, and Th. D.—and only one of his nineteen degrees was bestowed by an institution behind the Iron Curtain.

He has a remarkable record. For the benefit of reviewers his publishers have crowded into 126 square inches a list of his honors and affiliations, but the list is incomplete, for it omits the numerous activities in which he had to admit participation when he was under oath before the congressional Committee on Un-American Activities in July 1953. It does not include the significant facts that his name appears in almost every discussion of the Communist Party’s extensive infiltration of the American clergy, and that he is usually a member of the various Councils, Conferences, and Associations that from time to time discover a singular coincidence between Christian doctrine and whatever policy happens at the moment to suit the convenience of the Kremlin. There is no mention of his connection with American University, which boldly championed Professor Herbert Fuchs so long as there was hope that he would defy the Committee on Un-American Activities and immediately discharged him when he testified against Communist conspirators (see national review, Jan. 25, 1956).