Theologie im Kontext der „Deutschen Freiheitsbewegung“: Überlegungen zum Anliegen kontextueller Theologien am Beispiel der deutschchristlichen Theologie
This essay seeks to show that the success of the Nazi church party, the "Deutsche Christen" at the beginning of the Third Reich was rooted in its character as a contextual theology. As in other recent contextual theologies, the German Christians sought to regain the lost relevance of theol...
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| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
1995
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 1995, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 259-299 |
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| Summary: | This essay seeks to show that the success of the Nazi church party, the "Deutsche Christen" at the beginning of the Third Reich was rooted in its character as a contextual theology. As in other recent contextual theologies, the German Christians sought to regain the lost relevance of theological terms. I first describe the German Christian theological position adopted by Joachim Hossenfelder (1899-1976), the first 'Reichsleiter' of the 'Glaubensbewegung Deutsche Christen'. Beginning with the term 'race', I then outline the ideological, political and church-political context of the German Christian theology. In a third section, I argue that the German Christian theology arose out of its context, parallel to the more recent Latin American Theology of Liberation, and point out the aims of such theologies. Contextual theologies try to regain the relevance and the 'Realitätsbezug' of theological terms which are obviously being lost in the cultural milieu in which these theologians had to work. The concepts of God, sin, revelation etc. are taken not as signs of separate transcontextual or transcendental entities, but are instead interpreted to fit a more relevant political and social context. The fourth section sketches the German Christian theology of Immanuel B. Schairer (1885-1963) as an example of this hermeneutical operation. This essay seeks to show that these contextual theologians were dealing with a continuing problem — as indeed was Bonhoeffer with his famous 'non-religious interpretation of biblical concepts'. In post-war Germany, dialectical theology with its strict separation of theology and context became the leading theological position. But with the rebirth and success of contextual theologies since the 1960s, it turns out that dialectical theology was neither able to suppress successfully, nor to solve the problem of the lost relevance and significance of theological terms. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
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