Before Auschwitz

by Paul R Hinlicky

Overview

About the Contributor(s):
Paul R. Hinlicky is the Tise Professor of Lutheran Studies at Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia, a Docent of the Protestant Theological Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava, and a Professor of Systematic Theology at the Institute of Lutheran Theology. He is the author of Paths Not Taken (2009), Luther and the Beloved Community (2010), Divine Complexity (2010), and with Brent Adkins, Rethinking Philosophy and Theology with Deleuze (2013).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620321034
Publisher:	Cascade Books
Publication date:	06/27/2013
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	246
Sales rank:	709,659
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Paul R. Hinlicky is the Tise Professor of Lutheran Studies at Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia, a Docent of the Protestant Theological Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava, and a Professor of Systematic Theology at the Institute of Lutheran Theology. He is the author of Paths Not Taken (2009), Luther and the Beloved Community (2010), Divine Complexity (2010), and with Brent Adkins, Rethinking Philosophy and Theology with Deleuze (2013).

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Can Theology Learn from Its Past? 1

Chapter 1 Hitler's Theologians 14

Chapter 2 The Peril of Conservative Apologetics 44

Chapter 3 Seeing How We Saw 68

Chapter 4 The Not So Strange Theology of Adolf Hitler 99

Chapter 5 Contested Topics in Theology 141

Conclusion: Inheritance, Decay, and Renewal 188

Appendix: Samuel Štefan Osuský. "The Philosophy of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Hitlerism" (1937) 193

Bibliography 221

Index of Subjects and Names 229

What People are Saying About This

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"Historians find in early twentieth-century Germany a compelling backdrop for questions of politics, culture, and everyday life. Theologians recognize it as a time of nearly unrivaled creativity and productivity. But few historians register theological nuance, and few theologians attend to historical context. Before Auschwitz is exciting for being the rare book that does both. Hinlicky asks how theology was at work in this history and what this history means for contemporary theology."
—Michael P. DeJonge, author of Bonhoeffer's Theological Formation: Berlin, Barth, and Protestant Theology

"Paul Hinlicky's interest is not merely to shed light on how it could happen that highly cultured and sophisticated German Christians could support the evil actions of Nazi anti-Semitism, but to suggest we have no guarantee that something similar could not happen within American Christianity."
—Carl E. Braaten, Emeritus Professor of Systematic Theology, Lutheran School of Theology

"Hinlicky is making the best of his American and European roots and transcends many bounds in the realm of societal theology. His honest, personal, and courageous book is not just about the history of theology. It thinks basic theological positions over and presents theology that makes history."
—Ľubomir Batka, Dean of Lutheran Theological Faculty, Comenius University

Editorial Reviews

"Historians find in early twentieth-century Germany a compelling backdrop for questions of politics, culture, and everyday life. Theologians recognize it as a time of nearly unrivaled creativity and productivity. But few historians register theological nuance, and few theologians attend to historical context. Before Auschwitz is exciting for being the rare book that does both. Hinlicky asks how theology was at work in this history and what this history means for contemporary theology."
—Michael P. DeJonge, author of Bonhoeffer's Theological Formation: Berlin, Barth, and Protestant Theology

"Paul Hinlicky's interest is not merely to shed light on how it could happen that highly cultured and sophisticated German Christians could support the evil actions of Nazi anti-Semitism, but to suggest we have no guarantee that something similar could not happen within American Christianity."
—Carl E. Braaten, Emeritus Professor of Systematic Theology, Lutheran School of Theology

"Hinlicky is making the best of his American and European roots and transcends many bounds in the realm of societal theology. His honest, personal, and courageous book is not just about the history of theology. It thinks basic theological positions over and presents theology that makes history."
—Ľubomir Batka, Dean of Lutheran Theological Faculty, Comenius University

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