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In various parts of the world, dialogue between Christians and marxists is now a more or less regular occurrence. It has not been so for long. Indeed, it is only within the last decade that a reasonably continuous exchange of ideas between the two has occurred. In the preceding generation, an encounter of sorts did take place, though primarily from the Christian side and almost solely at the literary level. Before that there were only scattered attempts on the part of both Christians and marxists to come to grips with each other's convictions. Investigations of the political confrontation between various Christian churches and communist regimes have frequently enough been conducted. Analyses of the intellectual evaluation of marxist thought by individual Christian scholars have somewhat more rarely, and arguably less discerningly, also been undertaken. Less attention has been given to both surveying and assessing the more general development of the intellectual interchange that has taken place between the two movements from its beginnings until the present time. In order to keep such an examination within manageable proportions, however, consideration of the factors that have given rise to the current dialogue as of the value of its contents and future potential have been left to one side. Consequently the account that follows restricts itself to the period preceding this latest development and may be regarded as a contribution to the pre-history of the dialogue that is now in progress.

Experimentation was carried out to test for a relationship between subjective time perception and ability to make temporal judgements. The performance of 20 depersonalized and derealized patients and 20 controls, was compared on a variety of tests of time judgement administered under normal laboratory conditions and under conditions which have been shown to induce or amplify distortions in subjective temporal experience. The results failed to indicate any reliable relationship between subjective temporal experience and ability to make time judgements. The performance of patients did not differ reliably from that of controls under any of the testing conditions; exposure to distorting conditions did not have a reliable effect on temporal performance and Ss who reported temporal distortions either in their past life or while actually performing the tests of time judgement, failed to perform differently from Ss who did not report distortions.

“Revolution, reformism, anarchism provide the categories with which an examination of the ‘theology of revolution’ must be undertaken in order to determine the extent to which it actually possesses a revolutionary content. Such a survey may be best approached by documenting briefly the attitudes expressed by Christian thinkers in the various centers of revolutionary activity in the Third World, and then turning to the writings of certain figures who have been most forthright in promoting the revolutionary cause in the west.”