Language:
German
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Kirche und Israel; Neukirchener theologische Zeitschrift
Angaben zur Quelle:
4,1 (1989) 42-59
Keywords:
Freudenberg, Adolf,
;
World Council of Churches
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1945-
;
History
;
Judaism Relations 1945-
;
Christianity
;
Protestant churches Relations
;
Judaism
Abstract:
Adolf Freudenberg left Germany during the 1930s because of his non-Aryan wife, and became head of the Refugee Department of the World Council of Churches. After the war he tried to persuade the Council to recognize Christian obligations to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust; he made even more difficult and persistent efforts to arouse the German Protestant Churches to the need for an explicit admission of guilt and repudiation of antisemitism. Describes the declarations of the World Council of Churches on the Jewish question in 1946 (reprinted in an appendix). The German Churches attempted for years to evade discussion of his proposals. Finally, in the 1950s, the annual convention of German Protestant Churches agreed to add a session on Christian-Jewish relations, which resulted in the establishment in 1959 of the Jewish-Christian Working Group (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Juden und Christen).
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