Language:
German
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Nes Ammim; Zeichen für die Völker
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (1999) 1-17; 2: 1-18
Keywords:
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance
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Church history 20th century
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Shows that Bonhoeffer, almost alone among members of the Bekennende Kirche, was a consistent advocate for the Jews, converted and non-converted alike. Against the Lutheran doctrine of two separate realms, Church and State, he held that it was the Church's duty to resist the State when it committed injustice. He protested against the persecution of the Jews, whom he described in his theological writings as the indestructible people, due to their role in salvation history. He refused to sign the Bethel Declaration of 1933, which he had helped to formulate, after two paragraphs condemning the persecution of the Jews were removed from it. As head of an illegal seminary of the Bekennende Kirche, he taught appreciation of the Old Testament. He joined the resistance at an early date mainly out of opposition to Nazi antisemitic policy; he informed foreign contacts of the deportation of Jews. In prison he began to read the Old Testament as a text valuable in itself and not merely as prefiguring the New Testament.
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