Format:
1 online resource (270 pages)
ISBN:
9780253001023
Content:
This innovative new work demonstrates that a significant minority of pastors, bishops, and theologians of varying theological and church-political persuasions utilized Martin Luther's writings about Jews and Judaism with considerable effectiveness to reinforce the anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism already present in substantial degrees among Protestants in Nazi Germany. Scholarship on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust has typically viewed anti-Semitism as a modern, racially-based phenomenon. Anti-Judaism, on the other hand, has regularly been regarded as a pre-modern, religiously-based hatred of Jews. In this book, Christopher J. Probst, demonstrates that anti-Semitism pre-dates the modern era and anti-Judaism survived into and flourished during the Nazi era. Following historian Gavin Langmuir, Probst argues that the traditional distinction between anti-Judaism as "theological" hostility and anti-Semitism as "racial" animus is not empirically demonstrable and thus should be abandoned. Instead, it is irrational thought that characterizes anti-Semitism; nonrational (symbolic) thought, the kind found in art and affirmations of belief, characterizes anti-Judaism. This schema helps us to comprehend with greater clarity how the nature of theological discourse shaped German Protestant approaches to the "Jewish Question." The carefully situated case studies presented in the book demonstrate that a significant minority of pastors, bishops, and theologians of varying theological and church-political persuasions utilized Luther's writings about Jews and Judaism with considerable effectiveness to reinforce the cultural anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism already present in significant degrees among Protestants in Nazi Germany. With material from Luther's writings forming an important part of their intellectual arsenal, many German Protestant theologians and clergy
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Protestantism in Nazi Germany -- 2 "Luther and the Jews" -- 3 Confessing Church and German Christian Academic Theologians -- 4 Confessing Church Pastors -- 5 German Christian Pastors and Bishops -- 6 Pastors and Theologians from the Unaffiliated Protestant "Middle" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Protestantism in Nazi Germany; 2 "Luther and the Jews"; 3 Confessing Church and German Christian Academic Theologians; 4 Confessing Church Pastors; 5 German Christian Pastors and Bishops; 6 Pastors and Theologians from the Unaffiliated Protestant "Middle"; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253000989
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780253000989
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Probst, Christopher J., 1969 - Demonizing the Jews Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.] : Indiana Univ. Press, 2012 ISBN 9780253001023
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253000989
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253001009
Additional Edition:
ISBN 025300098X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0253001005
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Theology
Keywords:
Luther, Martin 1483-1546
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Antijudaismus
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Rezeption
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Deutschland
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Evangelische Kirche
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Geschichte 1933-1945
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Antisemitismus
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Kirchenkampf
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Electronic books
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=816828
Author information:
Probst, Christopher J. 1969-
