Description
| Product ID: | 9781978707535 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Biblical ABCs |
| Subtitle: | The Basics of Christian Resistance |
| Authors: | Author: Collin Cornell, Eleonora Hof |
| Page Count: | 198 |
| Subjects: | Religious ethics, Religious ethics, European history, Christianity, Christian theology |
| Description: | Biblical ABCs is a theological resistance primer. Written illegally under Nazi occupation by Dutch pastor and theologian Kornelis Heiko (K.H.) Miskotte, it provides basic biblical coordinates for Christians seeking to live bold and faithful lives in times of crisis, alienation, and alternative facts. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Lexington Books/Fortress Academic |
| Publisher Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-10-15 |