Capitulation
Subtitle: the lesson of German Catholicism
By: [by] Carl Amery.  Translated by Edward Quinn.
Publisher: Herder and Herder
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York City, USA
Language: eng
Translation of: Die Kapitulation: oder, Deutscher Katholizismus heute
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Description: Powerful, but powerless. Equipped with all the panoply of clerical 'influence', and yet hamstrung by an almost total 'capitulation' to the values of its milieu. For the author, this is the paradox of German Catholicism. The charge is serious, but he makes it stick. The notorious capitulation of German Catholicism to Hitler in 1933 is not to be shrugged off with superficial excuses ("the bishops were weak"): it was the inevitable response to German Catholicism as it had evolved historically to the particular circumstances. More alarmingly, nothing has changed. The next capitulation won't be so obvious or melodramatic, but it will be just as devastating--'the capitulation of healthy human understanding to national pique'. This is a German analysis of German Catholicism, but its method and its questions are of general applicatoin. English-speaking Catholicism may not have German Catholicism's 'position of influence'; but has it avoided capitulation to its milieu?
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Translation of Die Kapitulation; oder, Deutscher Katholizismus heute.
Table of contents: title: Foreword
pagenum: vii
authors: J. M. Cameron; label: 1
title: Power and Powerlessness: The Paradox of German Catholicism
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: German Catholicism and Its Milieu
pagenum: 3; label: 3
title: The Milieu's System of Values and Virtue
pagenum: 26; label: 4
title: Who Capitulated?
pagenum: 39; label: 5
title: 1935-1945: General Line and Resistance
pagenum: 56; label: 6
title: The War: Patriots and Rebels
pagenum: 75; label: 7
title: 1945-1948: Another Test, by Examples
pagenum: 104; label: 8
title: The Minority's New Image of the Church
pagenum: 126; label: 9
title: The Milieu in the Post-War Era
pagenum: 143; label: 10
title: Catholicism and Its Place in the System
pagenum: 155; label: 11
title: A Word to the Reader
pagenum: 186; label: 12
title: How Long Before the Next Capitulation?
pagenum: 204; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 225
authors: Heinrich Böll