Preaching to Nazi Germany: The Pulpit and the Confessing Church

William Skiles

doi:10.5771/9781978700642

Summary

Preaching to Nazi Germany explores the history of Confessing Church preachers' engagement with the Nazi regime through an analysis of their sermons. 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. Skiles demonstrates that pastors had limited freedom to publicly criticize the Nazi regime, its leaders, and its ideology, and that pastors often used Christian symbols to code their criticisms to remain inconspicuous to the Gestapo or Nazi informants. This book demonstrates how pastors used a sacred text and applied it to the problems of the churches in Nazi Germany.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-0063-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-0064-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 296
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
The Church Divided No access Pages 27 - 62
A Fettered Gospel No access Pages 63 - 84
The Confessing Church and the “New School” of Homiletics No access Pages 85 - 114
Challenging Nazi Ideology No access Pages 115 - 144
Against the Nazi Persecution of the Churches No access Pages 145 - 172
“The Bearers of Unholy Potential” No access Pages 173 - 208
In the Defense of Jews and Judaism No access Pages 209 - 234
Spying in God’s House No access Pages 235 - 254
Conclusion No access Pages 255 - 260
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 261 - 284
Index No access Pages 285 - 294
About the Author No access Pages 295 - 296