Nazism, liberalism, & Christianity : Protestant social thought in Germany & Great Britain, 1925-1937

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Nazism, liberalism, & Christianity : Protestant social thought in Germany & Great Britain, 1925-1937

Kenneth C. Barnes

University Press of Kentucky, c1991

  • : alk. paper

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Nazism, liberalism, and Christianity

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Bibliography: p. [183]-194

Includes index

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The Great Depression devastated the economies of both Germany and Great Britain. Yet the middle classes in the two countries responded in vastly different ways. German Protestants, perceiving a choice among a Bolshevik-style revolution, the chaos and decadence of Weimar liberalism, and Nazi authoritarianism, voted Hitler into power and then acquiesced in the resulting dictatorship. In Britain, Labour and Tory politicians moved gingerly together to form a National Government that muddled through the Depression with piecemeal reform. In this troubling book about troubled times, Kenneth Barnes looks into the question of how theologians and church leaders contributed to a cultural matrix that predisposed Protestants in these two countries to very different political alternatives. Holding fast to the liberal social gospel, British churchmen diagnosed the problems of the 1920s and the Depression ao solvable and called for genuine reforms, many of which foreshadowed the coming welfare state. German leaders, in contrast, were terrified by the socioeconomic and political problems of the Weimar era and offered no social message or solution. Despairingly, they referred the problems to secular politicians and after 1933 beat the drum for obedience to the Nazi state. Based on extensive research in European archives, especially the rich papers of the interwar ecumenical movement housed at the World Council of Churches in Geneva, this book examines key intellectual figures such as Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Archbishop William Temple, as well as many lesser known church officials and theologians. Barnes brings to life the intellectual struggles and dilemmas of the interwar period to help explain why good people could, for moral and religious reasons, choose opposing courses of political action.

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Recollections at my birth, and some early memories of my own Summer twilights on the front porch, and early episodes in my life which taught me that real life is a very hard thing More childhood troubles. Of my Dad and his hard ways with us Getting to know my father Of my parents, their courting and marrying Of our working together, and of Dad's schemes for making money Memories of Graddad Aught and Granny Katty Uncle Jason and seven generations of Ritchies How some of our songs first came into the family The Ritchies take Christmas Of fall days and harvesting, and falling in love Marriage, birth, and death within the family The ways of the world

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