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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779186903321

Autore

Probst Christopher J. <1969->

Titolo

Demonizing the Jews [[electronic resource] ] : Luther and the Protestant church in Nazi Germany / / Christopher J. Probst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-48710-0

9786613582331

0-253-00102-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

261.2/6094309043

261.26094309043

Soggetti

Church and state - Germany - History - 1933-1945

Christianity and antisemitism

Protestant churches - Germany - History - 20th century

Germany Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Protestantism in Nazi Germany -- "Luther and the Jews" -- Confessing church and German Christian academic theologians -- Confessing church pastors -- German Christian pastors and bishops -- Pastors and theologians from the unaffiliated Protestant "middle".

Sommario/riassunto

This innovative new work demonstrates that a significant minority of pastors, bishops, and theologians of varying theological and church-political persuasions utilized Martin Luther's writings about Jews and Judaism with considerable effectiveness to reinforce the anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism already present in substantial degrees among Protestants in Nazi Germany.Scholarship on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust has typically viewed anti-Semitism as a modern, racially-based phenomenon. Anti-Judaism, on the other hand, has regularly been regarded as a pre-modern, religiously-based hatr