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THEY CONSPIRE AGAINST YOUR PEOPLE
THE EUROPEAN CHURCHES AND THE HOLOCAUST |
| By: |
Colin Barnes |
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Paperback |
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£15.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0956200621 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780956200624 |
| Publisher: |
KINGS EVANGELICAL DIVINITY SCHOOL |
| Pub. date: |
31 May, 2014 |
| Pages: |
456 |
| Synopsis: |
This book explores the extent to which the European churches and their theology contributed to a mindset that permitted the genocide of six million Jews during the Holocaust. Were the Catholic and Protestant churches of Europe rescuers, bystanders or facilitators? What emerges in this historical study is a commonality of word and deed, with the evidence indicating that Christianity in its various forms across Europe was surprisingly united in its view of the Jewish people. The Holocaust was a progression of increasingly lethal measures: vilification, boycotts, deportation, ghettoization, and finally, mass murder. With the exception of the latter, these stages repeated the pattern of the European churches' own Jewish policy in the centuries and years leading up to the Holocaust. This pre-existing pattern, based on the theological view of punitive supersessionism (that God had punished the Jews and replaced them with Christianity as his new people), proved decisive in determining the European churches' responses to the unfolding Nazi programme.Especially important is this study's treatment of Protestant perceptions of the Jewish people, often largely un-researched in the current historical literature. The cumulative effect of support for all earlier Nazi Jewish policies left the European churches morally incapable of opposing genocide. They opted for a guilty, deliberate silence while their presence and theology aided the Holocaust. |
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UK |
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King's Divinity Press |
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Non-returnable |
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