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- Title
Was ist „evangelischer Widerstand“? Einige Überlegungen aus Anlass einer Internet-Präsentation und einer Neuerscheinung.
- Authors
Ringshausen, Gerhard
- Abstract
In response to the internet exhibition "Resistance!? - Protestant Christians in the National-socialism" (Widerstand!? - Evangelische Christinnen und Christen im Nationalsozialismus) designed by Harry Oelke, the proceedings of a conference of the "Protestant Study Group of Contemporary Church History", edited by Siegfried Hermle und Dagmar Pöpping call for a new culture of memory of the Protestant resistance. This study therefore engages critically with some of the articles in that volume, but also explores two fundamental questions: what is the relation between memory and history, and by which standards can general resistance against the Nazi regime be distinguished from specifically "Protestant resistance"? If we ignore the problem of the broad and undifferentiated concept of resistance which tends to be used in this discussion, "protestant resistance" can be recognised according to ethical-political norms, which are, however, quite general and therefore do not offer any special significance to "protestant resistance". The connection of resistance to particular communities of memory is not discussed in this collection. However, if a protestant commitment is identified as a key aspect of motivation and responsibility, then the related human and political arguments and in particular the plurality of Protestantism can scarcely justify a specifically "protestant culture of memory"; especially since the Protestant conception of the church emphasises that such questions have only ethical and not ecclesiological relevance. A specifically theological interpretation of memory is only suitable in the case of martyrs.
- Subjects
ANTI-Nazi movement; NATIONAL socialism &; collective memory; RELIGIOUS ethics; RELIGION
- Publication
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie und Geschichtswissenschaft, 2018, Vol 31, Issue 1, p272
- ISSN
0932-9951
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/kize.2018.31.1.272