Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Lutheran churches stood against Nazis and Stalinists
Lutheran churches in Germany were among the only institutions to stand
against Nazis in the 1940s. For this reason they were left intact when
the Stalinists took over. And forty years later, the Lutheran churches
of East Germany were prominent in the crumbling of Stalinism. The
revolutions of 1989 throughout the East Bloc were Lutheran revolutions
-- from the epicenter in Bach's church in East Germany to the uprising
in Timisoara -- all of these began in Lutheran churches. How accurate is
Rorty's notion of Nazis and Christians being identical?
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