George Faithful

Mothering the Fatherland

A Protestant Sisterhood Repents for the Holocaust

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Produktbeschreibung

George Faithful tells the story of a group of young Lutheran women who formed the Ecumenical Sisterhood of Mary in 1947 in order to advocate collective national guilt for the sins of the German people (Volk) against God and against the Jews.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780199363469
• ISBN-10: 0199363463
• Artikelnr.: 40398067

Autorenporträt

George Faithful studied at Wake Forest University, the Université de Nantes, and the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin before receiving his Ph.D. in historical theology from Saint Louis University

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures
* Caution to the Reader
* Acknowledgements
* Frequently Used German Words
* Introduction
* PART I: PROTESTANT GUILT
* Chapter 1: Guilt in Klara Schlink's Thought, 1920-1947
* Chapter 2: Public Confessions of German National Guilt, 1945-1947
* Chapter 3: Mother Basilea Schlink's Theology of Guilt
* PART II: THEY, THE PEOPLES
* Chapter 4: The German Volk
* Chapter 5: Schlink's Pseudo-Judaic, Germanic Vision of Nationhood
* PART III: REPENTING FOR OTHERS
* Chapter 6: Defining Repentance in Schlink's Theology
* Chapter 7: Schlink and the Sisters' Repentance as a Priestly and
Monastic Service
* Chapter 8: The Place of Gender in Schlink and the Sisters' Repentance
* Chapter 9: The Creation of Sacred Space in Schlink and the Sisters'
Repentance
* Afterword
* Appendix 1: The Barmen Declaration
* Appendix 2: The Stuttgart Confession
* Appendix 3: The Darmstadt Statement
* References
* Archival and Unpublished Primary Sources
* Published Primary Sources
* Secondary Sources