Language:
English
Year of publication:
1985
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
30 (1985) 203-213
Keywords:
Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland Relations
;
Judaism
;
Jews History 1918-1933
;
Protestant churches Relations
;
Judaism
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1918-1933
Abstract:
In the political and economic crises of the 1920s, the German Lutheran Church feared liberalism as well as right-wing radicalism. Leaders of the anti-Nazi trend (later the Confessional Church), many of whom later defended Jewish rights, equated Judaism (especially Zionism) with Nazism, claiming that both rejected salvation through Christ and exalted materialism, narrow ethnic nationality, and secular political messianism. This view was influenced by Luther's anti-Judaism and traditional antisemitic ideas.
Note:
Appeared also in his "Religion, Politics and Ideology in the Third Reich" (2004).
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/30.1.203
URL:
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