A Church Undone
Author | : |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2015-04-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781451496666 |
ISBN-13 | : 1451496664 |
Rating | : 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Download or read book A Church Undone written by and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.