Mothering the Fatherland - A Protestant Sisterhood Repents for the Holocaust

George Faithful tells the story of a group of young Lutheran women who formed the Ecumenical Sisterhood of Mary in 1947 in order to advocate collective national guilt for the sins of the German people (Volk) against God and against the Jews.

List of contents

• List of Figures


• Caution to the Reader


• Acknowledgements


• Frequently Used German Words


• Introduction


• PART I: PROTESTANT GUILT


• Chapter 1: Guilt in Klara Schlink's Thought, 1920-1947


• Chapter 2: Public Confessions of German National Guilt, 1945-1947


• Chapter 3: Mother Basilea Schlink's Theology of Guilt


• PART II: THEY, THE PEOPLES


• Chapter 4: The German Volk


• Chapter 5: Schlink's Pseudo-Judaic, Germanic Vision of Nationhood


• PART III: REPENTING FOR OTHERS


• Chapter 6: Defining Repentance in Schlink's Theology


• Chapter 7: Schlink and the Sisters' Repentance as a Priestly and Monastic Service


• Chapter 8: The Place of Gender in Schlink and the Sisters' Repentance


• Chapter 9: The Creation of Sacred Space in Schlink and the Sisters' Repentance


• Afterword


• Appendix 1: The Barmen Declaration


• Appendix 2: The Stuttgart Confession


• Appendix 3: The Darmstadt Statement


• References


• Archival and Unpublished Primary Sources


• Published Primary Sources


• Secondary Sources

About the author

George Faithful studied at Wake Forest University, the Université de Nantes, and the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin before receiving his Ph.D. in historical theology from Saint Louis University

Summary

George Faithful tells the story of a group of young Lutheran women who formed the Ecumenical Sisterhood of Mary in 1947 in order to advocate collective national guilt for the sins of the German people (Volk) against God and against the Jews.

Additional text

In Mothering the Fatherland: A Protestant Sisterhood Repents for the Holocaust, George Faithful provides us with an insightful study of the Ecumenical Sisterhood of Mary (now the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary).

Product details

• Authors: George Faithful, George (Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow Faithful, Faithful George
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.2014
• EAN: 9780199363469
• ISBN: 978-0-19-936346-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / History, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, History of Religion, Jewish Studies, Social and cultural history, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities