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Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Arnold Köster: Two Distinct Voices in the Midst of Germany's Third Reich Turmoil

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Arnold Köster: Two Distinct Voices in the Midst of Germany's Third Reich Turmoil

Spanring, Paul

Paperback

Religious BiographiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0718893492
ISBN13: 9780718893491
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: Sep 25 2014
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A study of two figures in the Christian opposition to Nazism, one famous, one obscure, and the theological traditions that shaped their responses to tyranny.

Baptists and Lutherans often define the tension of being in the world, but not in terms of two separate realms: the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the world. However, their understanding of these realms and their delicate connection is quite nuanced. Within the Lutheran tradition, the two kingdoms are held in tension, which in turn leads to a precarious interaction of state and church. In the (Ana)Baptist tradition, a much stricter duality is emphasised, resulting in a more radical and separatist stance.

'Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Arnold Köster' analyses and compares the historical development of these two viewpoints, and to discover how these traditions, represented in the lives of two individual followers, responded to the ideological onslaught of neopaganism and the enforced political conformity of the Third Reich. Compared with Dietrich Bonhoeffer, little is known of the Baptist preacher Arnold Köster. His ministry as a pastor of the Baptist church in Vienna lasted from 1928-1960. During the Nazi regime, he consistently preached critically and prophetically against its underlying ideology.

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