George Faithful

Mothering the Fatherland (eBook, PDF)

A Protestant Sisterhood Repents for the Holocaust

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Produktbeschreibung

How should one respond, personally or theologically, to genocide committed on one's behalf? After the Allied bombing of Darmstadt, Germany, in 1944, some Lutheran young women perceived their city's destruction as an expression of God's wrath-a punishment for Hitler's murder of six million Jews, purportedly on behalf of the German people. George Faithful tells the story of a number of these young women, who formed the Ecumenical Sisterhood of Mary in 1947 in order to embrace lives of radical repentance for the sins of the German people against God and against the Jews. Under Mother Basilea Schlink, the sisters embraced an ideology of collective national guilt. According to Schlink, a handful of true Christians were called to lead their nation in repentance, interceding and making spiritual sacrifices as priests on its behalf and saving it from looming destruction. Schlink explained that these ideas were rooted in her reading of the Hebrew Bible; in fact, Faithful discovers, they also bore the influence of German nationalism. Schlink's vision resulted in penitential practices that dominated the life of her community. While the women of the sisterhood were subject to each other, they elevated themselves and their spiritual authority above that of any male leaders. They offered female and gender-neutral paradigms of self-sacrifice as normative for all Christians. Mothering the Fatherland shows how the sisters overturned German Protestant norms for gender roles, communal life, and nationalism in their pursuit of redemption.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199363476
• Artikelnr.: 41007257

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