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Augsburg Fortress Publishers
- A Church Undone: Documents from the German Christian Faith Movement, 1932-1940
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
summary
Decades after the Holocaust, many assume that the churches in Germany resisted the Nazi regime. In fact, resistance was exceptional. The Deutsche Christen, or German Christians, a movement within German Protestantism, integrated Nazi ideology, nationalism, and Christian faith. Marrying religious anti-Judaism to the Nazis racial antisemitism, they aimed to remove everything Jewish from Christianity.For the first time in English, Mary M. Solberg presents a selection of German Christian documents. Her introduction sets the historical context. Includes responses critical of the German Christians by Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Table of Contents
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- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- List of Images
- pp. xv-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-44
- 3. Theological Existence Today!
- pp. 81-100
- 7. The Jewish Question
- pp. 201-228
- 8. Our Struggle
- pp. 229-248
- 9. Speech at the Sports Palace in Berlin
- pp. 249-262
- 11. Outline of German Theology
- pp. 267-292
- 12. German Christians: A People’s Book
- pp. 293-320
- 13. The German Community of Christ
- pp. 321-336
- 14. Christ in Germany’s Third Reich
- pp. 337-364
- 15. Political Christianity
- pp. 365-382
- 16. God’s Word in German
- pp. 383-394
- 18. Freedom of Conscience
- pp. 421-432
- 19. Jesus and the Jews!
- pp. 433-442
- 20. The Godesberg Declaration and Responses
- pp. 443-452
- 21. Who Is Jesus of Nazareth?
- pp. 453-470
- Bibliography
- pp. 471-478
Additional Information
ISBN
9781451496666
Related ISBN(s)
9781451464726
MARC Record
OCLC
907705897
Pages
486
Launched on MUSE
2015-04-21
Language
English
Open Access
No