Preaching in Hitler's shadow : sermons of resistance in the Third Reich / edited by Dean G. Stroud. - xii, 203 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-201).

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- Historical context : preaching in the Third Reich -- Why read sermons from Nazi Germany? -- Evil calling upon god -- Hitler's positive Christianity -- Belief in Hitler -- How Nazis saw the world -- Was Jesus really a Jew? -- A faith for weaklings -- T4 -- The German Christian Movement -- Martin Luther Day 1933 -- Confessing Christ -- The Pastors' Emergency League -- Enter Karl Barth -- "Lord, where shall we go?" -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the "Jewish Question" -- The Nazi persecution of the Jewish people -- Bonhoeffer's preaching -- The Barmen Declaration -- Barmen as rhetorical guide -- Hearing the sermons -- Nazi speech -- Christian rhetoric of silence -- Preaching as provocation -- SELECTED SERMONS OF RESISTANCE IN THE THIRD REICH -- Gideon / Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- A sermon about Jesus as a Jew / Karl Barth -- Christ crossing the stormy lake and Jesus' Glory / Paul Schneider -- A sermon about the relevance of Christianity in Nazi Germany / Martin Niem诬ler -- A sermon about giving thanks in the Third Reich / Paul Schneider -- O land, land, land : hear the word of the Lord! / Julius von Jan -- A sermon about Kristallnacht / Helmut Gollwitzer -- A sermon about faith as war begins / Helmut Gollwitzer -- A sermon for a victim of Aktion T4 / Gerhard Ebeling -- A sermon about the Parable of the Great Banquet / Rudolf Bultmann -- A sermon about Aktion T4 / Clemens August von Galen -- The way of true faith / Wilhelm Busch -- APPENDIX -- A sermon about the Loyalty Oath to Adolf Hitler.

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Church and state--History--Germany--1933-1945.
National socialism and religion.
Sermons, German.
Clergy--History--Germany--20th century.
Anti-Nazi movement--Germany.
Christianity and politics--History--20th century.
National socialism--Moral and ethical aspects.
Antisemitism--History--Germany--20th century.

BR856 / .P74 2013

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