„Endlich ein Wort zur Lage!“: Karl Barths Streitruf an die Protestantische Kirche am Ende der zwanziger und zu Beginn der dreißiger Jahre
A question is raised in view of the recently expressed accusation: that Barth's "theology of crisis" unconsciously strengthened the antiliberal, authoritative, and ultra-conservative tendencies of the prevailing theology and church of the time, and thus, in the year 1933, represented...
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| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
1989
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 1989, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 409-425 |
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| Summary: | A question is raised in view of the recently expressed accusation: that Barth's "theology of crisis" unconsciously strengthened the antiliberal, authoritative, and ultra-conservative tendencies of the prevailing theology and church of the time, and thus, in the year 1933, represented what was still to come. This essay expresses the idea that these tendencies were inherent in certain ecclesiological pre-suppositions: 1) in the welcoming of the abolition of the constitutionality of the church as a state-church as determined by the Weimar state-from which the church thought it could seperate itself, 2) in a "crisis mentality" as produced by the "left's" critique of the church, in which the church formed a front with the bourgois against the forces of the "left", and 3) in the notion of the political neutrality of the church, which was understood as a vote against the parties of the state in favor of a völkisch nationalism. The essay shows that Barth's polemical text was directed precisely against these ecclesiological presuppositions. Thus it was-albeit indirectly-a politically explosive "Wort zur Lage", because with this text these political implications were irrevelant. Thus, already in 1930, Barth, in a manner of speaking, gave his critique of the period-just as he also gave it at the beginning of the Hitler era. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
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