Capitulation
the lesson of German Catholicism
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Author
Contributions
- Heinrich Böll - Afterword
- Edward Quinn - Translator
Publication
1967 - Herder and Herder, New York City, USA, New York (State)
Language
English
Translation of: Die Kapitulation: oder, Deutscher Katholizismus heute
Word Count
57,750 words, Guess
Page Count
231 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL5537193M
- OCLC Control Number1247872
- Internet Archivecapitulationless0000carl
- Library of Congress Control Number67014139
- AmazonB0007DXOG2
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- Better World BooksBWB341517
Classifications
- DDC282.43
- LCCBX1536.2.M3513 Bi
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?
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