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Dark, Depressing Riddle - Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of the Volk in the Theology of Paul Althaus (Hardcover)
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Dark, Depressing Riddle - Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of the Volk in the Theology of Paul Althaus (Hardcover)
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At the twilight of the Weimar Republic, politicians, scientists,
and theologians were engaged in debates surrounding the so-called
Jewish Question. When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, these
discussions took on a new sense of urgency and poignancy. As state
measures against Jews unfolded, theological conceptions of the
meaning of Israel and Judaism began to impact living, breathing
Jewish persons. In this study, Ryan Tafilowski traces the thought
of the Lutheran theologian Paul Althaus (1888-1966), who once
greeted the rise of Hitler as a gift and miracle of God, as he
negotiated the Jewish Question and its meaning for his
understanding of Germanness across the Weimar Republic, the Nazi
years, and the post-war period. In particular, the study uncovers
the paradoxical categories Althaus used to interpret the ongoing
theological significance of the Jewish people, whom he considered
both an imminent threat to German ethnic identity and yet a
mysterious cipher by which Germans might decode their own spiritual
destiny in world history. Sketching the peculiar contours of
Althaus theology of Israel, this study offers a fresh
interpretation of the Erlangen Opinion on the Aryan Paragraph,
which is an important artifact not only of the Kirchenkampf, but
also of the complex and ambivalent history of Christian
antisemitism. By bringing Althaus into conversation with some of
the most influential theologians of the twentieth century -- from
Karl Barth and Emil Brunner to Rudolf Bultmann and Dietrich
Bonhoeffer -- Tafilowski broadens the scope of his inquiry to vital
questions of political theology, ethnic identity, social ethics,
and ecclesiology. As Christian theologians must once again reckon
with questions of national self-understanding under the pressures
of mass migration and resurgent nationalisms, this investigation
into the logic of ethno-nationalist theologies is a timely
contribution.
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