Review Glen, J. S.: Erich Fromm: A Protestant Critique

  • This book is a comprehensive and reliable secondary source to acquaint the reader with an overall exposition of the work of Erich Fromm, the psychoanalyst. The primary objective of the author is to challenge Fromm's adoption of popular misconceptions of (a) the Protestant conception of salvation by grace alone and (b) the Protestant conception of original sin. He accurately compares Fromm's optimimism about man as being >against himself.< Unfortunately, he does not see that it is Menninger and not Freud with whom Fromm should be contrasted as contemporaries.- Glen concludes that Fromm >appraises the human predicament too cheaply< and >in his concern for the universal man loses sight of the personal.< The research of Glen is to be commended for having a consistent point of view of his own with which to criticize Fromm.

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Author:Wayne E. Oates
Parent Title (English):Review and Expositor, Vol. 65 (No.2, 1968), p. 257.
Document Type:Reviews
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1968
Release Date:2015/12/14
Format:no download and copy possible
IdNo:Oates_W_E_1968
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Reviews / Rezensionen
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Reviews / Rezensionen
Licence (German):
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