The reluctant revolutionary : Dietrich Bonhoeffer's collision with Prusso-German history / John A. Moses.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moses, John A. (John Anthony), 1930-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich.

Church and state--Germany--History--1933-1945.

Church and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a uniquely reluctant and distinctly German Lutheran revolutionary. In this volume, the author, an Anglican priest and historian, argues that Bonhoeffer's powerful critique of Germany's moral derailment needs to be understood as the expression of a devout Lutheran Protestant. Bonhoeffer gradually recognized the ways in which the intellectual and religious traditions of his own class - the Bildungsbürgertum - were enabling Nazi evil. In response, he offered a religiously inspired call to political opposition and Christian witness-which cost him his life. The aut

Contents:

The "peculiarity" of German political culture

Bonhoeffer's formation

The problem of anti-semitism in Germany from Luther to Hitler

Bonhoeffer's opening to the west and the involvement in ecumenism

The church struggle to 1937

The ethics of conspiracy

Bonhoeffer and the Jewish question

Dietrich Bonhoeffer as critic of his class in retrospect

The post-war confrontation with the Nazi past.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-289) and index.

ISBN:

9786612627699

9781782383406

1782383409

9781282627697

1282627694

9781845459109

1845459105

OCLC:

645101849