Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics
Recent political events around the world have raised the spectre of an impending collapse of democratic institutions. Contemporary concerns about the decline of liberal democracy are reminicent to the tumult of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe. Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived in Germany during the rise of National Socialism, and each reflected on what the rise of totalitarianism meant for the aspirations of modern politics. Engaging the realities of totalitarian terror, they avoided despairing rejections of modern society. Beginning with Barth in the wake of the First World War, following Bonhoeffer through the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany, and concluding with Barth's post-war reflections in the 1950s, this study explores how these figures reflected on modern society during this turbulent time and how their work is relevant to the current crisis of modern democracy.
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Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics
Recent political events around the world have raised the spectre of an impending collapse of democratic institutions. Contemporary concerns about the decline of liberal democracy are reminicent to the tumult of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe. Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived in Germany during the rise of National Socialism, and each reflected on what the rise of totalitarianism meant for the aspirations of modern politics. Engaging the realities of totalitarian terror, they avoided despairing rejections of modern society. Beginning with Barth in the wake of the First World War, following Bonhoeffer through the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany, and concluding with Barth's post-war reflections in the 1950s, this study explores how these figures reflected on modern society during this turbulent time and how their work is relevant to the current crisis of modern democracy.
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Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics

Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics

by Joshua Mauldin
Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics

Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics

by Joshua Mauldin

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Recent political events around the world have raised the spectre of an impending collapse of democratic institutions. Contemporary concerns about the decline of liberal democracy are reminicent to the tumult of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe. Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived in Germany during the rise of National Socialism, and each reflected on what the rise of totalitarianism meant for the aspirations of modern politics. Engaging the realities of totalitarian terror, they avoided despairing rejections of modern society. Beginning with Barth in the wake of the First World War, following Bonhoeffer through the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany, and concluding with Barth's post-war reflections in the 1950s, this study explores how these figures reflected on modern society during this turbulent time and how their work is relevant to the current crisis of modern democracy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198867517
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 03/14/2021
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Joshua Mauldin, Associate Director, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton

Joshua Mauldin is Associate Director of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Critics of Modern Politics2. Karl Barth and the Crisis of the First World War3. Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Ethical Life of Modern Society4. The Divine Mandates and Political Resistance5. Karl Barth on the Rise of National SocialismConclusionBibliography
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