Hans Ansgar Reinhold (1897-1968) Ein vergessener deutscher Theologe im amerikanischen Exil
The Roman-Catholic church is a world organisation with a great diplomatic tradition. It is also a religious community where the faithful, without any diplomatic considerations, are able to find a direction for themselves within the Christian belief. At times both these lines of tradition break apart...
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| Language: | German |
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2005
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 2005, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 121-157 |
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| Summary: | The Roman-Catholic church is a world organisation with a great diplomatic tradition. It is also a religious community where the faithful, without any diplomatic considerations, are able to find a direction for themselves within the Christian belief. At times both these lines of tradition break apart. At the beginning of the "Third Reich" the German episcopate, in close consultation with the Vatican, tried to find a modus vivendi with National-socialism. For faithful Christians who fought openly against the Nazi ideology and opposed Hitler's dictatorship, the search for a compromise which their superiors pursued was unbearable. Accordingly, fierce controversies broke out between the church hierarchy and Catholic Christians who resisted. Prosecuted by the Gestapo, the Catholic sailorpastor Hans Ansgar Reinhold fled abroad. His bishop, William Berning (Osnabrück), who at first had a good relation with the Nazi-State, thought Reinhold's emigration an act of needless fear and he disapproved of his illicit escape. This would have serious consequences: Reinhold was regarded a persona non grata by the Roman-Catholic Church for many years and because of this failed to secure regular employment abroad in the west. Reinhold's critical relationship with Berning, and his fate, provide a particularly suggestive illustration of the fractures which broke out inside Roman Catholicism during the "Third Reich". |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
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