A01=William Skiles
Author_William Skiles
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church struggle
confessing church
confessing church preachers
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history of homiletics
martin niemoeller
nazi germany
nazi regime
Product details
- ISBN 9781978700635
- Weight: 594g
- Dimensions: 159 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 05 Sep 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Preaching to Nazi Germany explores the history of Confessing Church preachers' engagement with the Nazi regime through an analysis of their sermons. William Skiles argues that clergy expressed various messages that aimed to limit Nazi interference in church affairs and at times even to undermine the Nazi state and its leaders and policies. Skiles demonstrates that pastors had limited freedom to publicly criticize the Nazi regime, its leaders, and its ideology, and that pastors often used Christian symbols to code their criticisms to remain inconspicuous to the Gestapo or Nazi informants. This book demonstrates how pastors used a sacred text and applied it to the problems of the churches in Nazi Germany.
William Skiles is associate professor of history and chair of General Education at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
