Preaching to Nazi Germany: The Pulpit and the Confessing Church Skiles William
Preaching to Nazi Germany: The Pulpit and the Confessing Church Skiles William Preaching to Nazi Germany explores the history of Confessing Church preachers' engagement with the Nazi regime through…
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Preaching to Nazi Germany: The Pulpit and the Confessing Church Skiles William
Preaching to Nazi Germany explores the history of Confessing Church preachers' engagement with the Nazi regime through an analysis of their sermons. Skiles demonstrates that pastors had limited freedom to publicly criticize the Nazi regime, its leaders, and its ideology, and that pastors often used Christian symbols to code their criticisms to remain inconspicuous to the Gestapo or Nazi informants. William Skiles argues that clergy expressed various messages that aimed to limit Nazi interference in church affairs and at times even to undermine the Nazi state and its leaders and policies.
This book demonstrates how pastors used a sacred text and applied it to the problems of the churches in Nazi
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