Covenanted Solidarity : The Theological Basis of Karl Barth's Opposition to Nazi Antisemitism and the Holocaust

by Lindsay, Mark R.

• ISBN13: 9780820451916
• ISBN10: 0820451916
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Author Biography

Mark R. Lindsay earned his Ph.D. in historical theology at the University of Western Australia, where he currently teaches history and European studies

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xvii
Abbreviations	xix
Chronology of the Kirchliche Dogmatik	xxi
Introduction	1	(10)
The Context of Resistance: Theological and Political Inhibitants to Widerstand	11	(34)
The Church-State Relationship in History	11	(2)
Church and State in the Weimar Republic	13	(2)
Theological Diversity of German Protestantism After 1918	15	(5)
Religion and the Machtergreifung	20	(2)
Church Reaction to the Machtergreifung	22	(1)
The Kirchenkampf	23	(6)
Ecclesiastical Resistance	29	(16)
Antisemitism in Nineteenth Century Germany	45	(36)
The Heterogeneity of Nineteenth Century Germany	45	(2)
The Position of the Jews	47	(3)
Literary and Scientific Antisemitism	50	(3)
Political Antisemitism	53	(2)
Nationalism and Antisemitism	55	(1)
Houston Stewart Chamberlain	56	(7)
The Religious Roots of Nineteenth Century Nationalistic Antisemitism	63	(18)
Karl Barth's Political Theology (I)	81	(44)
The Evolution of an Interpretive Paradigm	81	(4)
Barth's Early Vikariat	85	(2)
Religious Socialism	87	(5)
Barthian Politics Prior to 1914	92	(2)
World War One: Its Impact on Barth's Theological and Political Alignments	94	(4)
The (Re)turn to the Bible	98	(2)
Romans I	100	(4)
Romans II	104	(21)
Revelation and History	125	(38)
Part I
The Liberalization of Revelation	125	(3)
The National Socialist Appropriation of Revelation	128	(6)
From Revelation to Deification	134	(3)
Part II	137	(1)
The Legacy of Liberalism on Barth's Early View of Revelation	138	(5)
Revelation in Romans I	143	(2)
Revelation in Romans II	145	(3)
The Christological Modification of 1924	148	(3)
The Gottingen Dogmatics	151	(12)
Christological Revelation and Confessional Protest	163	(36)
Antisemitism in the National Socialist Idea of Revelation	164	(5)
The Move toward Confessional Resistance	169	(4)
The First Barmen Declaration	173	(2)
The Second Barmen Declaration	175	(6)
Political Praxis as the Genuine Interpretation of Barmen	181	(4)
Barth's Dogmatic Presuppositions of Barmen	185	(14)
Karl Barth's Anti-Nazi Christology	199	(14)
Nazi Christology	199	(1)
Karl Barth's Early Christology	200	(3)
The 1924 Christological Modification as the Dogmatic Basis for Rejecting Antisemitism	203	(2)
Christology in the Church Dogmatics	205	(8)
The Doctrine of Christological Election as a Repudiation of Antisemitism	213	(4)
The Election of the Community	217	(7)
Jewish Rejection as Rejected in Christ	224	(17)
Karl Barth's Political Theology (II)	241	(40)
The Good Samaritan Parable as Paradigmatic for Barthian Ethics	241	(5)
Theologische Existenz heute!	246	(3)
`Die Kirche Jesu Christi'	249	(1)
The Expulsion to Basel	250	(1)
The Continuation of the Fight from Switzerland	251	(4)
The Crises of 1938	255	(1)
`Rechtfertigung und Recht'	256	(2)
`Das Heil kommt von den Juden'	258	(3)
The Reaction to Kristallnacht	261	(4)
The War Years	265	(2)
The Hungarian Tragedy	267	(14)
`Israel' in the Theology of Karl Barth	281	(32)
Israel in Romans II	281	(4)
The Sarcasm behind the `Jewish Offense'	285	(4)
The `Judas Passage' of CD II/2	289	(9)
Israel as Demonstrative of the Divine Preservation	298	(15)
Conclusion	313	(4)
Bibliography	317	(18)
Name Index	335	(6)
Subject Index	341