Biblical ABCs: The Basics of Christian Resistance - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 197870755X ISBN 13 : 9781978707559

Editeur : Fortress Academic, 2023

Synopsis

Biblical ABCs is a theological resistance primer. Its author, Kornelis Heiko Miskotte, was a Dutch pastor, theologian, and antifascist who lived and worked under the Nazi occupation of his country. Miskotte's family hid Jews inside their home, and Miskotte facilitated underground Christian discussion groups. In 1941, he published an illegal pamphlet as a study guide for these groups. In an atmosphere saturated with propaganda and lies, Miskotte felt that Christians needed a refresher course in the basics of biblical language-an anti-Nazi catechism, as it were. Miskotte presents this instruction in twelve brief, poetic meditations on important terms drawn from the Bible. Like his teacher Karl Barth, Miskotte insists on the primacy of the Word, and like his imprisoned colleague Dietrich Bonhoeffer, he emphasizes the this-worldliness of the Old Testament. Miskotte also shows his deep debt to the Jewish theologian, Franz Rosenzweig. He begins his primer with the A of the biblical ABCs: the Name of God, the Tetragrammaton, which Miskotte sees as the cornerstone of all resistance to authoritarianism and truth decay.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Eleonora Hof (PhD, Protestant Theological University), translator, is pastor of Ieper/Ypres, United Protestant Church in Belgium.

Collin Cornell (PhD, Emory University), translator, is research affiliate and coordinator of the Center for Religion and Environment in the School of Theology at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN (USA).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fortress Academic
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 197870755X
• ISBN 13: 9781978707559
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 198
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• Personne responsable: non disponible