TY  - BOOK
AU  - James Irvin Lichti
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Houses on the Sand?
T2  - Pacifist Denominations in Nazi Germany
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1105681
N2  - Under Hitler, Germany’s state-linked provincial churches functioned as seedbeds of nationalism. A smaller and independent church form – the «free church» or denomination – offered greater promise of nonconformity. Linked by pacifist traditions, German Mennonites, Seventh-day Adventists, and Quakers promoted a range of liberal principles: empowerment of the individual conscience, respect for confessional diversity, and separation of church and state. Nonetheless, two of these denominations used these same principles to defend and even embrace the Nazi regime. This book examines what makes Christian communities – when meeting the harsh challenges of modernity – viable entities of faith or hollow forms.
KW  - Deutschland, Pazifismus, Quäker, Geschichte 1933-1945, German history, Quaker, Nazi Germany, Denominationalism, Mennonite
LA  - English
ER  -