A Reappraisal of the Orders of Creation

Critics have pointed to two World Wars, the rise of German fascism, and the genocide of Europe’s Jews as proof of a faulty political ethics inherent in Lutheranism’s two kingdoms doctrine. The strongest criticism came from Karl Barth years before the Nazi seizure of power. As Barth pointed out in an...

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Main Author: Tafilowski, Ryan (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2017]
In: Lutheran quarterly
Year: 2017, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 288-309
IxTheo Classification:KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBB German language area
KDD Protestant Church
NBD Doctrine of Creation
NBE Anthropology
NCD Political ethics
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