Demonizing the Jews
Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany
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2012
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-00098-9 (ISBN)
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-00098-9 (ISBN)
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Discusses the use of Luther's writings to reinforce anti-semitism and anti -Judaism
The acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews is well documented. In this book, Christopher J. Probst demonstrates that a significant number of German theologians and clergy made use of the 16th-century writings by Martin Luther on Jews and Judaism to reinforce the racial antisemitism and religious anti-Judaism already present among Protestants. Focusing on key figures, Probst's study makes clear that a significant number of pastors, bishops, and theologians of varying theological and political persuasions employed Luther's texts with considerable effectiveness in campaigning for the creation of a "de-Judaized" form of Christianity. Probst shows that even the church most critical of Luther's anti-Jewish writings reaffirmed the antisemitic stereotyping that helped justify early Nazi measures against the Jews.
The acquiescence of the German Protestant churches in Nazi oppression and murder of Jews is well documented. In this book, Christopher J. Probst demonstrates that a significant number of German theologians and clergy made use of the 16th-century writings by Martin Luther on Jews and Judaism to reinforce the racial antisemitism and religious anti-Judaism already present among Protestants. Focusing on key figures, Probst's study makes clear that a significant number of pastors, bishops, and theologians of varying theological and political persuasions employed Luther's texts with considerable effectiveness in campaigning for the creation of a "de-Judaized" form of Christianity. Probst shows that even the church most critical of Luther's anti-Jewish writings reaffirmed the antisemitic stereotyping that helped justify early Nazi measures against the Jews.
Christopher J. Probst is a visiting assistant professor of modern European history at Saint Louis University. He was a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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 Bibliography
Verlagsort | Bloomington, IN |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-253-00098-X / 025300098X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-00098-9 / 9780253000989 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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