Christ And The Swastika Ethical Problems Generated By The Conflict Between Christianity And Nazism
Christ And The Swastika Ethical Problems Generated By The Conflict Between Christianity And Nazism
Author(s): Mihnea GeorgescuSubject(s): Jewish studies
Published by: The Goldstein Goren Center for Hebrew Studies
Keywords: Manifest antichristian attitude; Enforced synthesis attitude; Interested accommodation attitude; Moral resistance against violence; moral culpabilities of the Germans under the Nazi regime; second world war WW II; Hitler’s Germany;
Summary/Abstract: "The purpose of this essay is to present the controversial relations between Christian ethics and the ideology of Nazism. To what extent did the followers of the Swastika remained faithful to the Christian tradition to which they nominally belonged? The question must be put into the larger context of the origins of anti- Semitism – namely, can these origins be found within Christianity or outside it? To be more specific: can anyone be anti-Semite and Christian? Regarding the relation between Christianity and National-Socialist anti- Semitism, there are at least four different cases, each of them illustrated by a certain type of moral attitude. We call these four attitudes: manifest antichristian, enforced synthesis, interested accommodation, and heroic resistance. "
Journal: Studia Hebraica
- Issue Year: 2006
- Issue No: 6
- Page Range: 239-247
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English
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