incongruent with the gospel, the result is syncretism. In every syncretism there is an accommodation of the gospel to some value prevalent in the culture, an accommodation that usually stems from the desire to make the gospel “relevant.” As early as the second century, the Gnostics attempted to accommodate the Christian faith to certain emphases in Greek philosophy. The history of theology since then is full of similar attempts. In our day, the adaptation of Christianity to Marxist premises has created