Hitler's Theology: A Study in Political Religion
In his study on Hitler's theology, German Catholic theologian Rainer Bucher examines the function of theological categories in Hitler's antiuniversalist Weltanschauung, or worldview, showing how Hitler's understanding of the nature of religious truths became a guiding principle of Nat...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2014, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 170-171 |
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| Summary: | In his study on Hitler's theology, German Catholic theologian Rainer Bucher examines the function of theological categories in Hitler's antiuniversalist Weltanschauung, or worldview, showing how Hitler's understanding of the nature of religious truths became a guiding principle of National Socialism and advanced the Führer's biopolitical projects, namely the creation of a racially united Volksgemeinschaft, the drive for Lebensraum, and the eradication of European Jewry. Despite his numerous misgivings about mainstream Christianity, Hitler nevertheless drew on Christian theology as a model of sociopolitical organization, admiring Christianity's moral absoluteness and ideological intransigence, as well as its capacity “to totalize, standardize and concretize” (p. 32). |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/cst139 |