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Cultural Confessionalism: Literary Resistance and the "Bekennende Kirche"

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by Grant Henley

    • Book Format

      Paperback / softback

    • Publisher

      Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W

    • Published

      March 2007

    • Weight

      310g

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      Cultural Confessionalism: Literary Resistance and the "Bekennende Kirche"

      Today's Price £31.91

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      Pastor Martin Niemoller, popular author Ernst Wiechert, and the young theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer were well known in the public sphere in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. As the decade of the 1930s progressed each of these figures became a vocal opponent of National Socialism. In the last twenty-eight sermons delivered before his arrest in 1937 Martin Niemoller revitalized Protestant homiletic discourse as a political tool in defiance of the regime. Having protested Niemoller's imprisonment, Ernst Wiechert was arrested by the Gestapo and incarcerated at Buchenwald for three months during the summer of 1938. Wiechert chronicled his experiences in the fictional autobiography Der Totenwald (1939) - a text which marks the apex of Wiechert's literary turn from Blut und Boden Dichter to outspoken critic of Nazism. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a member of the Pastors' Emergency League and for a time pastoral assistant to Martin Niemoller, constructed a sphere of textual resistance in his prose and poetic writings composed while imprisoned in Tegel from 1943 to 1945. This study traces the emergence of cultural confessionalism as a new literary resistance paradigm that developed out of the ideological nexus of cultural Protestantism and the confessionalist trend of the Kirchenkampf. Through literary analysis of sermons by Niemoller and written texts by both Wiechert and Bonhoeffer the book demonstrates how the textual resistance strategies of the cultural confessionalists varied from the oppositional approaches of the 'innere Emigration', the political resistance, and the Christian humanist tradition.

      Specification

      • Book Format

        Paperback / softback

      • Publisher

        Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W

      • Published

        March 2007

      • Weight

        310g

      • Dimensions

        152 x 279 x 16 mm

      • ISBN

        9783039102983

      • ISBN-10

        3039102982

      • Eden Code

        4724946

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      • ISBN: 9783039102983

      • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W

      • Release Date: March 2007

      • Weight: 310g

      • Dimensions: 152 x 279 x 16 mm

      • Eden Code: 4724946

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