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Title: Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich by Doris L. Bergen ISBN: 0-8078-4560-4 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: March, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Must reading for theological cognoscenti
Comment: Bergen's well researched and tightly written account of one German sect, the _The German Christians_ , offers a sobering account of the political consequences of a Christianity turned anti-doctrinal, anti-hierarchical, anti-Roman, people-centered, and focused on "feelings" rather than objective reality. This movement, self-designated as "The People's Church," celebrated its uniquely German form of Christianity in emotion-charged liturgies cleansed of traditional rituals and language. Stripped of long-established ritual, rules, tradition,theology, and foreign co-religionists, this wholly-German sect pressed its reconfigured notions of Christianity into the service of Nazism.
Trend spotters will note ominous parallels to developments in contemporary (increasingly horizontal forms of) American Christianity. Bergen offers evidence that tinkering with religious language, liturgy, rules and doctrine can have profound socio- political consequences.
Must read for all German history buffs as well as readers interested in Christian liturgy and theology. A complete copy of my review of _Twisted Cross_ appears in the September 1998 issue of Adoremus Bulletin.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book on a dark chapter in christian history
Comment: Adherents of the German Christian movement of the 1930's and 1940's saw Nazism and Christianity as movements with shared values and a common agenda. They were given official support by the Nazi party for a time and the first and only Protestant Reich Bishop, Ludwig Mueller, was nominated from among their ranks. While traditional church historians have sought to minimize this movement as an aberration, Bergen provides evidence to support the thesis that it remained a popular mass movement throughout the years of Nazi rule. The evidence she presents further demonstrates that this Protestant sect blended together Nazi and Christian doctrine not out of expediency but out of faith. She analyzes the views not only of the leaders of the movement but also of its rank and file in order to capture a sense of their religious as well as psychological and political motivations. For most of the book, her focus is on understanding how the at once nationalist and anti-doctrinal theology of the church evolved under the pressures of the Nazi regime. In this regard, her account of their escalating struggle to purge Christianity of its Jewish roots is of particular interest. The last chapter, Postwar Echoes, gives and interesting account of the way in which German Christians tried to reconcile their old allegiances in the post war period and the way in which other Protestant sects used the high-visibility collaboration of the German Christians to avoid thorough de-Nazification at the end of the war. Hard to find documentary photographs showing the widespread blending of Christian and Nazi symbolism in church life enhance the overall value of the work.
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Title: The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 by Robert Anthony Orsi ISBN: 0300042647 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust by Robert P. Ericksen, Susannah Heschel ISBN: 0800629310 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: War & Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (Critical Issues in History) by Doris L. Bergen ISBN: 0847696308 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (via NBN) Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Nazi Persecution of the Churches by J. S. Conway ISBN: 1573830801 Publisher: Regent College Publishing Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany by Guenter Lewy ISBN: 0306809311 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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