John A. Moses

The Reluctant Revolutionary

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Collision with Prusso-German History

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a uniquely reluctant and distinctly German Lutheran revolutionary. In this volume, the author, an Anglican priest and historian, argues that Bonhoeffer's powerful critique of Germany's moral derailment needs to be understood as the expression of a devout Lutheran Protestant. Bonhoeffer gradually recognized the ways in which the intellectual and religious traditions of his own class - the Bildungsbürgertum - were enabling Nazi evil. In response, he offered a religiously inspired call to political opposition and Christian witness-which cost him his life. The author investigates Bonhoeffer's stance in terms of his confro… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-84545-531-6
EAN: 9781845455316
Produktnummer: 19827931
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 324 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 553 g
Gewicht: 553
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

John A. Moses taught at the University of Queensland from 1965 to 1994. Since 2007 he has been professorial associate of St. Mark's National Theological Institute in Canberra. His publications include The Politics of Illusion: The Fischer Controversy in German Historiography (1975), German Trade Unions From Bismarck to Hitler (1982), Trade Union Theory from Marx to Walesa (1990), and edited with Christopher Puglsey, The German Empire and Britain's Pacific Dominions 1871-1919 (2000).