Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Amerikanisches Judentum
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1987) 50-63
Keywords:
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich,
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
Abstract:
The figure of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran theologian and opponent of Nazism, is better understood in America today after the struggle for civil rights, Watergate, and the Vietnam war. Bonhoeffer has been admired for his defense of the Jews (e.g. his attack on "the Aryan paragraph" of the Nazi Civil Service regulations) and for his active resistance. However, his writings reveal the ambiguous nature of Lutheran theological attitudes towards the Jews and Judaism, emphasizing that only by baptism can they gain salvation and that unconverted Jews are a rejected people. Nevertheless, he recognized the Jewish heritage of the Christian religion, and in his later writings he had begun to move towards a wider view of Christianity.
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