'And The Cock Crowed Again' Essays on Political Ideology and German Church History
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum
09.12.2008
Verlag
Traugott BautzSeitenzahl
126
Maße (L/B)
21/15.5 cm
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-88309-474-8
“After 1945, the role of the churches during the Third Reich was depicted by the survivors as a heroic struggle to maintain their institutional autonomy and ideological integrity in the face of Nazi persecution or theological perversion. […], as more documentation became available, younger historians have adopted a more sceptical stance, and a certain amount of overdue ‘demythologization’ has taken place. Left-wing critics especially have pointed out that the Church Struggle was never in fact against the Nazi state as such, and that the majority of churchmen, whether Catholic or Protestant, remained throughout in favour of Hitler‘s nationalist, and even his anti-Semitic objectives. The silence of the churches on such occasions as the notorious and very public Crystal Night pogrom in 1938, or their chorus of praise for Germany‘s victories in 1940, are evidence of their real political stance.” (John S. Conway)
In German Studies, Balzer is seen by John S. Conway from the University of British Columbia as an example of this “revisionist“ point of view. “Not only does he demonstrate that the German Protestant churches were, and have remained, bastions of a conservative political consensus, but he suggests that their leaders‘ sermons and speeches were primarily prompted by the desire to provide theological justifications for such reactionary views. True Christianity, he believes, consists in supporting a democratic, or better still a ‘socialist’ political order. […] More positively, he seeks to rescue from oblivion the history of the few pioneers of a ‘religious Socialism’, particularly in the 1920s, such as Erwin Eckert, a radical preacher whose adherence to the Communist Party [after his exclusion from the Social Democratic Party] made him an outcast to the majority of his colleagues. […] Balzer’s achievement is, however, to show that there were alternatives in the German churches to the majority‘s antidemocratic, patriarchal, and authoritarian attitudes. Only a tiny minority upheld the antinationalist, anti-imperialist causes of democracy or of peace, and frequently they paid a heavy penalty. As such they deserve to be remembered […]” With “And the cock crowed again” a selection of Balzer’s essays is presented here in an English translation for the first time.
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