Biblical ABCs : The Basics of Christian Resistance and Divine Aggression in Psalms and Inscriptions

Divine Aggression in Psalms and Inscriptions

Biblical ABCs : The Basics of Christian Resistance

Name: Biblical ABCs : The Basics of Christian Resistance
Price: 27.77 GBP
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Author: Eleonora Hof
ISBN: 9781978707559

by Eleonora Hof, Collin Cornell

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Publisher: Fortress Academic
15.3 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

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Biblical ABCs is a theological resistance primer. Its author, Kornelis Heiko Miskotte, was a Dutch pastor, theologian, and antifascist who lived and worked under the Nazi occupation of his country. Miskotte's family hid Jews inside their home, and Miskotte facilitated underground Christian discussion groups. In 1941, he published an illegal pamphlet as a study guide for these groups. In an atmosphere saturated with propaganda and lies, Miskotte felt that Christians needed a refresher course in the basics of biblical language-an anti-Nazi catechism, as it were. Miskotte presents this instruction in twelve brief, poetic meditations on important terms drawn from the Bible. Like his teacher Karl Barth, Miskotte insists on the primacy of the Word, and like his imprisoned colleague Dietrich Bonhoeffer, he emphasizes the this-worldliness of the Old Testament. Miskotte also shows his deep debt to the Jewish theologian, Franz Rosenzweig. He begins his primer with the A of the biblical ABCs: the Name of God, the Tetragrammaton, which Miskotte sees as the cornerstone of all resistance to authoritarianism and truth decay.