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Demonizing the Jews : Luther and the Protestant church in Nazi Germany / Christopher J. Probst.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Probst, Christopher J., 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church and state--Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Church and state.
- Christianity and antisemitism.
- Protestant churches--Germany--History--20th century.
- Protestant churches.
- Germany--Church history.
- Germany.
- Bekennende Kirche--History.
- Bekennende Kirche.
- Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.
- Luther, Martin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613582331
- 9781280487101
- 1280487100
- 9780253001023
- 0253001021
- OCLC:
- 793520225
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