Preaching to Nazi Germany - The Pulpit and the Confessing Church

In Preaching to Nazi Germany, William Skiles argues that clergy expressed various messages that aimed to limit Nazi interference in church affairs and at times even to undermine the Nazi state and its leaders and policies.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 The Church Divided: The Rise of National Socialism and the Question of Divine Revelation
Chapter 2 A Fettered Gospel
Chapter 3 The Confessing Church and the "New School" of Homiletics
Chapter 4 Challenging Nazi Ideology
Chapter 5 Against the Nazi Persecution of the Churches
Chapter 6 "The Bearers of Unholy Potential"
Chapter 7 In the Defense of Jews and Judaism
Chapter 8 Spying in God's House
Conclusion

About the author

By William Skiles

Summary

In Preaching to Nazi Germany, William Skiles argues that clergy expressed various messages that aimed to limit Nazi interference in church affairs and at times even to undermine the Nazi state and its leaders and policies.

Product details

• Authors: William Skiles
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781978700635
• ISBN: 978-1-978700-63-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, The Holocaust, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust