Spirit and Culture in German Christian Theology

The Spiritual Awakening of a Nation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book reveals the function of Spirit within the theological self-understanding of German Christian theologians within the Third Reich period.Historians and theologians have discussed how the life and works of Jesus Christ was apprehended and distorted by Nazi-sympathizing theologians within the German Evangelical Church throughout the National Socialist period. Ryan Buesnel adds to these critical conversations, demonstrating how the influences of German idealism, theological liberalism, and Völkisch philosophy provided the groundwork for a new concept of Spirit that transformed how many German Protestants understood the pneumatological content of Christian doctrine. Across nine chapters, Buesnel reveals that this warping of Christian doctrine for pro-Nazi ends resulted in a largely de-sacralized understanding of Spirit which symbolized a new era in German Christianity. By turning to the original German Völkisch and National Socialist Weltanschauung texts, Buesnel grounds his analysis in trinitarian theology, offering fresh insights not only of German Christianity and pneumatology, but Nazi-sympathizing rhetoric's use of Christian doctrine.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-12-10
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieT&T Clark
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781978717251

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List of AbbreviationsIntroduction1: The Radicalization of Context: The Distortion of a Method2: Prophets of Spiritual Rebirth in German History3: Spirit and Volk: Toward a Cultural Theology4: Spirit and Theology in the German Christian Imagination5: The Eisenach Institute: Theology, Spirit, and Cultural Accommodation 6: Jesus Christ: The Triumphant Spirit of the Volkstestament7: From Tarsus to Thuringia: Recasting Paul for the German SoulConclusion: A Historical Anomaly?Bibliography

In this masterful book, Ryan Buesnel offers a timely critique of overly-enthusiastic contextual theology, by exploring perhaps its most infamous example, the Deutsche Christen movement of Nazi Germany. Refusing the perversion of the German Christians’ conclusions, yet refusing also to dismiss them as self-evident heretics, Buesnel instead demonstrates how earnestly they grounded their theology in a contextual pneumatology, that leant into a longer tradition of German religion, and the national experiences of decline and rebirth. In an age of increasingly prominent – and influential – Christian nationalisms, Buesnel’s case-study speaks a powerful word of warning to both the theological academy, and today’s church, in equal measure.