[230] Communism^a---or let us better say Marxism, as a philosophy---is a CHRISTIAN philosophy, but a CHRISTIAN---which could never have occurred and been produced on any other soil but the soil prepared by the Prophets. So to sum up I would say: if Christian philosophy^b is understood in the simply descriptive fact that since the victory of Christianity in the Western culture, all philosophy is Christian in the sense that it cannot escape Christian substance, even if it is anti-Christian---then this is alright and simply a fact and doesn't stand under any value-judgment. It is important to realize this because we have exactly the same thing in Greece: Greek philosophy is determined by two gods, Apollo^c and Dionysius.^d The inner tension between them is always the driving force in Greek philosophy. Therefore the attempt of the Renaissance^e to restate Greek philosophy was equally impossible: it was turned around in a sense which was dependent on the Christian tradition in the Western world. In a lecture [course] on the Renaissance I very often gave in former years, I showed, point by point, philosophy by philosophy, how the GREEK attitude was turned around by the Renaissance philosophers who called themselves Platonists or Aristotelians or Neo-Stoics in a way which was determined by the fundamental Christian idea of creation^f---which made the fundamental difference between the feeling toward the world on Greek soil, on the soil formed by Apollo^g and Dionysius^h --and on the Christian soil. The presupposition for this is that I take Apollo ⁱand Dionysius ^jseriously, that I believe they are gods, and they are STILL gods--they are, as the Bible describes it, in mythological symbolism, SUBJECT TO CHRIST. But they are not NON-being; they ARE;