Title: Mothering the fatherland : a Protestant sisterhood repents for the Holocaust /
Authors: Faithful, George, 1979-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Moral and ethical aspects; Genocide Moral and ethical aspects.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence; Repentance Christianity; Guilt Religious aspects; Responsibility Social aspects.
Abstract: During the Allied bombing of Darmstadt in 1944, some Lutheran young women saw their city's destruction as an expression of God's wrath. In 1947, a small number formed the Ecumenical (now 'Evangelical') Sisterhood of Mary, one of the first post-war Protestant religious orders. They sensed God's call on them to embrace lives of radical repentance for the sins of the German people against God and against the Jews. Under Mother Basilea, born Klara Schlink, the sisters embraced an ideology of collective national guilt for the Holocaust.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- List of Figures -- Caution to the Reader -- Acknowledgements -- Frequently Used German Words -- Introduction -- PART I: PROTESTANT GUILT -- Chapter 1: Guilt in Klara Schlink's Thought, 1920-1947 -- Chapter 2: Public Confessions of German National Guilt, 1945-1947 -- Chapter 3: Mother Basilea Schlink's Theology of Guilt -- PART II: THEY, THE PEOPLES -- Chapter 4: The German Volk -- Chapter 5: Schlink's Pseudo-Judaic, Germanic Vision of Nationhood -- PART III: REPENTING FOR OTHERS -- Chapter 6: Defining Repentance in Schlink's Theology -- Chapter 7: Schlink and the Sisters' Repentance as a Priestly and Monastic Service -- Chapter 8: The Place of Gender in Schlink and the Sisters' Repentance -- Chapter 9: The Creation of Sacred Space in Schlink and the Sisters' Repentance -- Afterword -- Appendix 1: The Barmen Declaration -- Appendix 2: The Stuttgart Confession -- Appendix 3: The Darmstadt Statement -- References -- Archival and Unpublished Primary Sources -- Published Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources.