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Biblical ABCs
The Basics of Christian Resistance
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2021
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Biblical ABCs is a theological resistance primer. Its author, Kornelis Heiko Miskotte, was a Dutch pastor, theologian, and antifascist who lived and worked under the Nazi occupation of his country. Miskotte’s family hid Jews inside their home, and Miskotte facilitated underground Christian discussion groups. In 1941, he published an illegal pamphlet as a study guide for these groups. In an atmosphere saturated with propaganda and lies, Miskotte felt that Christians needed a refresher course in the basics of biblical language—an anti-Nazi catechism, as it were. Miskotte presents this instruction in twelve brief, poetic meditations on important terms drawn from the Bible. Like his teacher Karl Barth, Miskotte insists on the primacy of the Word, and like his imprisoned colleague Dietrich Bonhoeffer, he emphasizes the this-worldliness of the Old Testament. Miskotte also shows his deep debt to the Jewish theologian, Franz Rosenzweig. He begins his primer with the A of the biblical ABCs: the Name of God, the Tetragrammaton, which Miskotte sees as the cornerstone of all resistance to authoritarianism and truth decay.
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2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0753-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-0754-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
German
Pages
172
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Contents No access
Miskotte’s Foreword to the 1941 Edition No access
Translators’ Preface No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1: Reading Scripture No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter 2: Teaching No access Pages 7 - 16
Chapter 3: Name No access Pages 17 - 26
Chapter 4: The Names of God No access Pages 27 - 34
Chapter 5: The Order of God’s Virtues No access Pages 35 - 44
Chapter 6: The Unity of God’s Virtues No access Pages 45 - 56
Chapter 7: The Acts No access Pages 57 - 66
Chapter 8: Word No access Pages 67 - 76
Chapter 9: Way No access Pages 77 - 86
Chapter 10: Sanctification No access Pages 87 - 108
Chapter 11: Expectation No access Pages 109 - 132
Chapter 12: The Life of Community No access Pages 133 - 150
Appendix No access Pages 151 - 154
Bibliography No access Pages 155 - 158
Scripture Index No access Pages 159 - 168
Author Index No access Pages 169 - 170
About the Authors and Translators No access Pages 171 - 172
