"DEPRIVE THEM OF THEIR PATHOS": KARL BARTH AND THE NAZI REVOLUTION REVISITED |
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Authors: | ARNE RASMUSSON |
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Institution: | Department of Religious Studies, UmeåUniversity, SE-90187 Umeå, SWEDEN |
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Abstract: | The role of Karl Barth's theology during the church struggle after the Nazi revolution in 1933 has been endlessly debated. I argue, first, that there is more continuity between “1925”, “1933”, and “1938” than most commentators have granted and that Barth never promoted an apolitical option. Second, I maintain that his theological imagination was restrained by the practices and structures of German (and European) Protestantism and his own acceptance at this time of a Christendom order. The church that his theology presupposed did not really exist. |
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