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

• Autore: Probst Christopher J. <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Disciplina: 261.2/6094309043; 261.26094309043
• Soggetto topico: Church and state - Germany - History - 1933-1945; Christianity and antisemitism; Protestant churches - Germany - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Church history
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Demonizing the Jews
• ISBN: 1-280-48710-0; 9786613582331; 0-253-00102-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820670003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II