Mothering the fatherland : a Protestant sisterhood repents for the Holocaust / George Faithful.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-265) and index.

Introduction -- Part One: Protestant Guilt: 1. Guilt in Klara Schlink's Thought, 1920-1947; 2. Public Confessions of German National Guilt, 1945-1947; 3. Mother Basilea Schlink's Theology of Guilt -- Part Two: They, the Peoples: 4. The German Volk; 5. Schlink's Pseudo-Judaic, Germanic Vision of Nationhood -- Part Three. Repenting for Others: 6. Defining Repentance in Schlink's Theology; 7. Schlink and the Sisters' Repentance as a Priestly and Monastic Service; 8. The Place of Gender in Schlink and the Sisters' Repentance; 9. The Creation of Sacred Space in Schlink and the Sisters' Repentance -- Afterword -- Appendix 1. The Barmen Declaration -- Appendix 2. The Stuttgart Confession -- Appendix 3. The Darmstadt Statement.