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The Church Struggle in South Africa

The Church Struggle in South Africa

Book Review: The Church Struggle in South Africa

Book Review: The Church Struggle in South Africa

The Church and Revolutionary Struggle in Central America

The class conflict that rages in Central American societies touches every institution in those societies. The Church increasingly speaks not with one voice but several, a reflection of the debate that goes on in the larger society over whose class interests will prevail and over who will do what to help them prevail. The contemporary conditions of most Central American societies are hostile to a social democratic alternative and the choices of Christians are increasingly reduced to two: defend the ruling class or join the revolutionary movement. The following perspective on the historical relationship between Church and imperialism and the Church and Central American revolutionary movements is particularly significant because it is the position of a key participant in the Cursillos de Capacitaci6n movement that he describes. [The Editors]

Book reviews

The Black Press in South Africa and Lesotho: a descriptive bibliographic guide to African, Coloured and Indian newspapers, newsletters and magazines 1836–1976 by Switzer, Les and Donna: G.K. Hall & Company, 1979. xix + 307 pp. Providing for leisure for the city dweller by M.S. Putterill & C. Bloch: Urban Problems Research Unit, University of Cape Town, 1978 The Church Struggle in South Africa by John. W. de Gruchy. U.S. edition by W.M. Eerdmans: 1979. South African edition, David Philip, 1979. Research Methods in Social Anthropology by Allen Johnson. London: Edward Arnold, 1978. x + 231 pp, bibliog, index. ’Coming Through’: The Search for a New Cultural Identity by Mia Brandel‐Syrier. Johannesburg: McGraw‐Hill, 1978. pp xxv + 209. R9.95. The Bushmen: San Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa edited by Phillip V. Tobias. Cape Town and Pretoria: Human and Rousseau, 1978, 206 pp., illus.

The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust

The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust

The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust. Edited by Franklin H. Littell and Hubert G. Locke. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1974. 327 pp. $15.95

The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust. Edited by Franklin H. Littell and Hubert G. Locke. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1974. 327 pp. $15.95 Get access John S. Wozniak John S. Wozniak Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 17, Issue 2, Spring 1975, Pages 324–325, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/17.2.324 Published: 01 March 1975

Book Review: III. Historical — Theological Studies: The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust

Book Review: III. Historical — Theological Studies: The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust

Church and politics: Dorothy Buxton and the German church struggle

The German church struggle in the nineteen thirties inevitably involved christians in Germany in a reconsideration of their attitudes towards politics, but its significance was not confined to Germany. The fate of Martin Niemöller, in particular, was a matter of lively concern in Britain. Conway contends that ‘the English-speaking public was all the more disposed to give every credit to the “Bekennende Kirche” because all the books published in English before the war were wholeheartedly on their side.’ English-speaking authors, he adds, unanimously, if one-sidedly, saw the struggle as one of church versus state, good versus evil, and confessing church versus nazi storm-troopers. A brief study of the activities of one of the writers mentioned by Conway, Mrs Dorothy Buxton, reveals that the ‘English-speaking public’ was not quite as unanimous in its interpretation of church and politics in Germany as the contemporary literary works might suggest.

Book Review: The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust

Book Review: The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust

The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust. Edited by Franklin H. Littell and Hubert G. Locke. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1974. 327 pp. $15.95.

The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust. Edited by Franklin H. Littell and Hubert G. Locke. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1974. 327 pp. $15.95.

The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust

(1974). The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 2, No. 7, pp. 178-179.

The Present Stage of the ‘Kirchenkampf’ Enquiry

The peculiar difficulty of contemporary or near contemporary history is less the privacy of archives than the excess. This is the more true concerning an age like that of Hitler, where the accidents of war, and the seizure of documents, followed by a consuming public interest, especially in Germany, have led some governments to open their archives before they would otherwise have considered it wise. The great collection of State (and other) papers in the Bundesarchiv at Coblenz already affords material for many enquirers for many years. The material for the Church struggle as it lies in archives was surveyed by John Conway, with a delightful description of the extraordinary confusion, and movement of papers hither-and-thither, caused by war and its aftermath. For obvious reasons the West managed to collect the most important papers. But no one should overlook the circumstances that documents and archives lie still inaccessible, or largely inaccessible, in the East. This is not peculiar to the documents of the age of Hitler, for students of the nineteenth century cannot yet gain access to the substantial Russian collections, even when these students hold chairs in the German Democratic Republic or in Poland and even when they work upon some ‘harmless’ and remote theme. The Polish archives are more available but are only beginning to be sorted and published. The Russian academy has much to do before it can make its resources more widely available.

Kirchenkampf and Holocaust: The German Church Struggle and Nazi Anti-Semitism in Retrospect

Jews have been writing their chronicles and histories—for Jews. Some Christian Scholars have been writing about the Church Struggle—for Christians. The deeper meaning of the Holocaust and Kirchenkampf has scarcely penetrated the American scene at all. Jewish leaders maintain that the American Jewish community has not yet come to terms with the Holocaust—for reasons which are certainly easy enough even for an outgrouper to understand. Less understandable, however, especially in view of the rising power of the Radical Right in America, is the failure of the American churches to work through the lessons of the German church struggle. Even the theological schools give it only a passing glance, chiefly because it does not fit the kind of self-understanding which American Chris tendom has of itself. Thirty years ago, as the Confessing Church was going to its Synod at Bad Oeynhausen or the German Jews were facing the dreadful portent of the Kristalnacht, there were only two leading churchmen in America who repeatedly and clearly—and with interpretations which still stand the test of time—warned of the true import of Nazism's war against the Jews and the Christians: Reinhold Niebuhr and George Shuster. Today, so far as the churches are concerned, it is only among the students and younger theologians that the questions which the Kirchenkampf and the Holocaust put to traditional religious institutions constantly arise. It is therefore with great anticipation and gratitude that the Wayne State University's undertaking to develop a major documentation and research center on the Church Struggle and a North American center on the Holocaust is to be welcomed by a whole company of

Martin Niemöller, the German Church Struggle, and English Opinion

The Gestapo arrived at Martin Niemöller's rectory in Berlin-Dahlem on the morning of 1 July 1937. He was taken away for questioning and remained a prisoner for nearly eight years. His detention came as no personal surprise since he had been aware of his perilous existence. Ever since Hitler's accession to power in January 1933, the uneasy relations between Church and State had received a certain amount of attention abroad. The precise issues at stake were, however, difficult to grasp. This complexity remained, but as the struggle appeared to centre on the fate of one man—Niemöller—interest became more widespread. Thirty years later, in England, whenever the Church Struggle is mentioned, the name of Niemöller most readily comes to mind.

Marriage and Divorce

The various sayings of Jesus about marriage are to be seen in the context of the primitive church's struggle to tradition God's revelation in Jesus in the tension between two understandings of revelation.

Book Review: The Church and Man's Struggle for Unity

Book Review: The Church and Man's Struggle for Unity

The Theology of Rudolf Bultmann and Second-Century Gnosis

In the second chapter of the Prolegomena to his recent study ‘Salvation as History’ (Heil als Geschichte) Oscar Cullmann argues for the similarity of Rudolf Bultmann's theology and the gnosis of the second century. Cull-mann works out the comparison starting with both gnosticism and Bultmann's denial of the idea of salvation as history. And if; in the second century, the early church's struggle with gnosticism was really a matter of life and death, is there not, Cullmann asks, in the present theological debate something similar at stake?

Volkskirche, ‘Christian State,’ and the Weimar Republic

In recent years growing numbers of German and American church historians have turned their attention to the spectacular Kirch enkanipf (Church Struggle) under the Nazis but have so far largely neglected the preceding Weimar period. And yet it stands to reason that the ambiguous response of Evangelical churches in the 1930's to a seemingly demonic use of political power can be explained, at least in part, by their political and social attitudes in the 1920's.

The Church's Struggle with Science

Research Article| December 01 1965 The Church's Struggle with Science Howard M. Lehn Howard M. Lehn Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The American Biology Teacher (1965) 27 (10): 781–784. https://doi.org/10.2307/4441187 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Howard M. Lehn; The Church's Struggle with Science. The American Biology Teacher 1 December 1965; 27 (10): 781–784. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/4441187 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe American Biology Teacher Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1965 National Association of Biology Teachers Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The Historiography of the German Church Struggle

T IS a regrettable fact that in almost all the accounts by English-speaking authors of the Nazi era in Germany only slight attention is paid to the affairs of the Churches. So much attention has been paid, and so much discussion focused, on the military and political events of the years of the Nazi tyranny that the internal developments, with the exception of the Resistance movement and the construction of the notorious concentration camps, have largely been overlooked. Only in recent years have studies been made of the methods by which the Nazis were able to impose their totalitarian rule over one hundred million people, and the consequent results to all established institutions both within Germany and within the conquered territories. Among these institutions must be counted the Churches, in particular the Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches which together commanded the loyalty of ninety-five per cent of all Germans. This fact alone makes it remarkable that so little attention has been paid to the impact of Nazism upon institutions which had been part and parcel of German life for centuries. Even in the one area of the Churches' life which might seem to be of particular significance to political historians, namely, the Churches' involvement in the political life of Germany, most treatments are very brief. For example, William Shirer, whose history of the Third Reich stretches to over twelve hundred pages, devotes only seven meagre pages to Church affairs, and these are given over to the story of the Churches' persecution and their attempts at resistance to Nazi tyranny. J. L. Snell, in his short survey of The Nazi Revolution in the D. C. Heath series, makes no mention at all of the Churches, not even of their share in the Resistance movement. Even in the more specialized studies of the Resistance itself, little or no analysis is given of the contribution of the Churches, even though it is acknowledged that both in the case of the active conspirators, such as those who partook in the twentieth July 1944 revolt, and in the more passive but ideologically-oriented forms of opposition to Nazism, Christian ideals and idealism played a formative role. It seems to have been assumed that the individuals concerned took their ideas from a substratum of Christian belief left over