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American church-related liberal arts colleges are dedicated to two traditions: Christian thought and liberal learning. According to Haynes, the moral continuity of these traditions was severed by the Holocaust. Because so many representations of these traditions contributed to the Nazis' ideological and physical efforts to annihilate millions of men, women, and children, it is unclear whether these traditions can any longer be said to facilita...

Evaluates the religious and cultural legacy of the "Death of God" movement and its relationship to the Holocaust.

This engaging text asks who was Bonhoeffer? Was he the tireless pastor who defended the church against state interference? Was he a righteous Gentile who championed the Jews when no one else would? Was he a religious visionary who foresaw the shape of Christian commitment in a post-Christian world? Was he a model Christian, or a theologian who betrayed his pacificism by becoming complicit in assassination? Stephen Haynes has probed both the...