Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction ……………………….……………………………Page 1
Part I: Christianity and National Socialism
Chapter 1. The New Testament and the Jews ……………..Page 14
The Hep riots … A great and terrible mystery … The biblical concept of Satan … The devilish nature of anti-Semitism … Original sin … Christian servants of the devil … What is a Christian? … Did Hitler or the Nazi Christians bear good fruit? … The Bible as the source of anti-Semitism … Paul’s teaching of salvation by grace through faith—an attack on Judaism? … The New Testament’s description of Jews … The crucifixion of Christ … Pontius Pilate and the guilt of the Gentiles … “His blood be on us” … Has God rejected the Jews? … Who are the children of the devil? … The Holocaust and the Old Testament … The massacres of the Canaanites … The Nuremberg racial laws … Hitler’s study notes on the Bible … The Christian way of holiness
Chapter 2. Medieval Christian anti-Semitism ……………..Page 53
Introduction … An analogy … The Jewish experience in the Middle Ages … Christian limitations … Concepts of the Jews … Christian doctrinal criticisms of Judaism … Concepts of government … Moral doctrines … The restraints in practice … Government protection of Jews … The Crusades … The Church of Rome and the Jews … John Chrysostom … The apostles’ attitudes toward the Jews … Chrysostom’s motive … Martin Luther … Some misconceptions about Luther … Luther and the Nazis … Luther in perspective … A secular evaluation of Luther … Luther’s goal … Matthew Henry and Romans 11 … A glimpse ahead … Conclusion
Chapter 3. Hitler’s secular and ungodly ideas ……………..Page 92
Hitler in the light of scripture … A blatant absence of Christian doctrines … Hitler’s unbiblical principles (i) … Hitler’s unbiblical principles (ii) … Hostility to Christianity in Mein Kampf … An honest liar … Hitler the Catholic? … Honest Adolf strikes again … Christ in Mein Kampf … Hitler’s last will and testament … Hitler’s references to God … Hitler’s references to the Bible … Hitler’s expressions of support for Christianity and the German churches … The example of the trade unions … The Nazi party platform supported “positive” Christianity … Hitler’s policy toward the churches – words contradicted by deeds … A blueprint for the future … Nazi church policies in Austria … Nazi church policies in the Warthegau … Hitler linked to Christianity … A. Hatred and fear of Christianity … A bias revealed … B. A lack of information … C. Illogical arguments … D. Misstatements of fact … Hitler’s Table Talk … Quotes from Hitler’s followers … Nazi photos … Nazi artifacts … E. Ignorance of Christianity … Paul’s letter to the Galatians … What was Hitler?
Chapter 4. The Christians in Nazi Germany ………….….Page 162
Judging by outward appearances … Modern Germany – a Christian nation? … How did Hitler deceive an entire nation? He didn’t. … A master of deceit … The churches’ responsibility for Hitler’s rise … Intimidation, violence, repression, and fear … A question of human nature … A few rare exceptions … Christian opposition to the euthanasia program … Hitler’s policy toward the churches … Alfred Rosenberg … Consolidation, rearmament, and war … Three lines of attack … 1. Administrative control … 2. The ideological challenge … 3. Persecution … The response of the churches … The Confessing Church … The Barmen Declaration … An ineffectual protest … The Germanic Christians … The culmination of apostasy … Wellhausen and Bultmann … The Catholics … The Concordat … The failure of the churches to speak out for the Jews … Martin Niemoller … A sermon by Niemoller … Dietrich Bonhoeffer … What should have been done? … Romans 13 – the authority of government and the sovereignty of God … A Christmas in Nazi Germany … Christians in other lands
Part II: The Origins of National Socialism
Chapter 5. The philosophical background ………….……..Page 227
The mystery of Hitler … The need for a world view … An analogy … The role of technology … Some Russian history … Germany, Russia, China, Italy, and Japan … The roots of an ideology … Hitler’s world view … A well-behaved young man … Descartes and the “Enlightenment” … A few words about the French Revolution and Napoleon … The “Enlightenment” in Germany … A brief overview … Kant …German philosophy and anti-Semitism in Mein Kampf … Kant’s racism … Concluding thoughts on Kant … Hitler and Fichte … Hitler the intellectual? … Fichte and National Socialism … Fichte, the Jews, and Christianity … The danger of philosophy … Friedrich Ludwig Jahn … Hegel … Hegel’s philosophy … Hegel and the Jews …Schopenhauer … Schopenhauer’s anti-Semitism … Gobineau … The Folkish movement … Paul Lagarde … German romanticism … The
intensification of Folkish tendencies … Julius Langbehn … The Pan-German Association … The Folkish movement and Christianity
Chapter 6. Wagner ………………….……………………….Page 304
A Folkish prophet … A problem of philosophy … The importance of racial purity … Racial unity and the need for a leader … Wagner’s socialism … Wagner and Christianity … Wagner and the Jews … Wagner and Hitler … Some clarification … Hitler’s youthful anti-Semitism
Chapter 7. Chamberlain ……………………………………Page 334
A spiritual founder of National Socialism … Chamberlain on the Jews – a philosophical and scientific approach … Two key presuppositions … A secular history of the Jewish people … The Jewish idea … The influence of Judaism … The revelation of Christ?
Chapter 8. Haeckel ……………………….…………………Page 362
Darwin, Haeckel, and Hitler … A barrier assaulted … Did Hitler believe Darwin’s theory? … Daniel Gasman’s third way … The marriage of science and philosophy … The practical implication’s of Haeckel’s ideas … Haeckel’s ethics … Euthanasia … Haeckel’s anti-Semitism … Haeckel’s idea of God … Haeckel’s unscientific ideas … A brief overview … Haeckel and Hitler … Did Haeckel influence Hitler? … Haeckel and Darwin
Chapter 9. Nietzsche ………………………………….………Page 399
The quintessentially modern man … The Nazi philosopher? … Nietzsche’s Antichrist … Nietzsche and Christianity … Nietzsche and the Jews … Nietzsche’s view of Christ … Paul and the emergence of Christianity … The Jewish menace to civilization … More teachings of The Antichrist … On the Genealogy of Morals … Hitler’s Table Talk … Hitler, the atheistic theist … Concluding thoughts on Nietzsche
Conclusion ……………………………….…….………..……Page 434
Bibliography ………………………………………….……….Page 454
Index …………………………………………………………..Page 462
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