Theologians, War, and the Universities: Early English interpretations of the “Manifesto of the Ninety-Three”, 1914–15
From von Harnack’s speech-writing for Kaiser Wilhelm II to the ‘Manifesto of the Ninety-Three’, theologians played an important role in justifying the defence of Kultur in the early stages of the First World War. This paper uses the war-pamphlet collection of William Sanday in the library of The Que...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2016
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Zeitschrift für neuere Theologiegeschichte
Year: 2015, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 168-189 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
World War
/ University of Oxford
/ Theologian
/ War
/ Justification
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics FB Theological education KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBF British Isles KDE Anglican Church |
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First World War
universities
Karl Barth
William Sanday
University of Oxford
Germany
“Manifesto of the Ninety-Three”
theological faculties
liberal Protestantism
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| Summary: | From von Harnack’s speech-writing for Kaiser Wilhelm II to the ‘Manifesto of the Ninety-Three’, theologians played an important role in justifying the defence of Kultur in the early stages of the First World War. This paper uses the war-pamphlet collection of William Sanday in the library of The Queen’s College to explore how English - and particularly Oxford - theologians responded to, and publically justified, British involvement in the war. Asserting that Oxford theologians were hesitantly nationalist by comparison with their German colleagues, this paper suggests that this dissimilarity cannot be explained purely by reference to the intellectual - some said, Nietzschean - arrogance of German theological liberals. Rather, the more cautious relationship of theologians in Britain to political and wider ecclesiastical discourse can, to some degree, be viewed through the lens of significant institutional differences between German and British theological faculties at the outbreak of the war. |
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| ISSN: | 1612-9776 |
| Contains: | In: Zeitschrift für neuere Theologiegeschichte
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/znth-2016-0002 |