Preaching in Hitler's shadow: sermons of resistance in the Third Reich

Historical context : preaching in the Third Reich. Why read sermons from Nazi Germany?

Evil calling upon God

Hitler's positive Christianity

Belief in Hitler

How Nazis saw the world

Was Jesus really a Jew?

A faith for weaklings

T4

The German Christian Movement

Martin Luther Day 1933

Confessing Christ

The Pastors' Emergency League

Enter Karl Barth

"Lord, where shall we go?"

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the "Jewish Question"

The Nazi persecution of the Jewish people

Bonhoeffer's preaching

The Barmen Declaration

Barmen as rhetorical guide

Hearing the sermons

Nazi speech

Christian rhetoric of silence

Preaching as provocation

Selected sermons of resistance in the Third Reich. Gideon / Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A sermon about Jesus as a Jew / Karl Barth

Christ crossing the stormy lake and Jesus' glory / Paul Schneider

A sermon about the relevance of Christianity in Nazi Germany / Martin Niemöller

A sermon about giving thanks in the Third Reich / Paul Schneider

O land, land, land : hear the Word of the Lord! / Julius von Jan

A sermon about Kristallnacht ; A sermon about faith as war begins / Helmut Gollwitzer

A sermon for a victim of Aktion T4 / Gerhard Ebeling

A sermon about the Parable of the Great Banquet / Rudolf Bultmann

A sermon about Aktion T4 / Clemens August von Galen

The way of true faith / Wilhelm Busch

A sermon about the loyalty oath to Adolf Hitler.