TY - JOUR A1 - Siebert, R. J. T1 - Fromm's Theory of Religion JF - Telos, St. Louis Vol. 11 (Winter 1977/78), pp. 111-120. N2 - E. FROMM's religious ideas are traced from the late 1920s through his involvement with the Frankfurt School, up to the present. FROMM's critical theory of religion is seen to be mainly a critique of ideology. It is a negative theology insofar as it is a negation of idols, whether they be of clay and wood, or the more modern state idols of leader, production and consumption, sex, car, and career. FROMM rediscovered this negative theology in the polemical and revolutionary form of perfect social justice in a rational and free society. Y1 - 1978 ER -