Mothering the Fatherland: A Protestant Sisterhood Repents for the Holocaust

Mothering the Fatherland: A Protestant Sisterhood Repents for the Holocaust
ISBN-10
0199363463
ISBN-13
9780199363469
Category
History
Pages
305
Language
English
Published
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
George Faithful

Description

During the Allied bombing of Darmstadt in 1944, some Lutheran young women saw their city's destruction as an expression of God's wrath. In 1947, a small number formed the Ecumenical (now 'Evangelical') Sisterhood of Mary, one of the first post-war Protestant religious orders. They sensed God's call on them to embrace lives of radical repentance for the sins of the German people against God and against the Jews. Under Mother Basilea, born Klara Schlink, the sisters embraced an ideology of collective national guilt for the Holocaust.

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