LEADER 03885cam a2200409Ia 4500001 40076 005 20240621144337.0 008 991116s1996 xx r 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)42837107 035 40076 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 BX4827.G6 |bB47 1996 100 1 Beschnidt, Dietlind Gyburg. 245 14 The anthropology of freedom : |ba study in Friedrich Gogarten and Karl Barth / |cby Dietlind Gyburg Beschnidt. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c1996. 300 vii, 273 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Th. D.)--Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1996. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-273). 520 The dissertation analyzes the political and theological implications of freedom of the individual within the context of the communities of church and state. Two principal theologians, Friedrich Gogarten (1887-1967) and Karl Barth (1886-1968), carry on the debate about freedom as to its political and theological significance. The pivotal years for the dissertation are 1933 and 1934 in Germany. Predominantly, primary German sources of Gogarten and Barth, often not available in English translation, are used to examine their theologies within the National Socialist Germany. First, the dissertation analyzes the anthropology of freedom in National Socialist theology. The establishment of freedom was a goal of the National Socialist political religion. Freedom also played a role in the main trends of German theology in the 1920s: Religious Socialism, Luther Renaissance, and dialectical theology. Second, Gogarten's anthropology, interested in the relationship between God and the individual, led to a political ethic based on the idea of total dependence on an authority. As a result, he subscribed to the ideas of the Deutsche Christen, a church party convinced of National Socialist ideas. Third, Barth suggested that the freedom of man was based on a relationship to a good God who realized his good will in the person of Jesus Christ. He rejected the Nazi government in Germany. Barth's theology found expression in the declaration of the Barmen Synod in 1934 which was the theological basis of the political resistance of the Confessing Church. Both theologians defined freedom mainly as obedience. While Gogarten developed his anthropology of freedom along the lines of Volk (people), Barth used the concept of church. This meant that they could not object to the discrimination against Jews and other minorities because they did not belong to the German people or the German Protestant Church. Also, while Barth objected to National Socialist totalitarian government because he was a Social Democrat, he was blind to the abuse of the left-wing totalitarian regime in East Germany later. Neither Barth nor Gogarten found a basic fault with totalitarian regimes. Both theologians' interest lay in advancing their theologies, not in the concrete freedom of individuals. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d1999. |e23 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Gogarten, Friedrich, |d1887-1967. 600 10 Barth, Karl, |d1886-1968. 650 0 Liberty. 650 0 National socialism. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=739921261&sid=15&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib40076/9732840.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 E0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hBX4827.G6 B47 1996 852 |bwww 852 |bebook