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Resistance in the Name of God: Some Reflections on Birger Forell, Totalitarian Ideas  and Christianity
University of Borås, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT. Akademin för polisiärt arbete. (KUBIK)
2020 (English)In: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie und Geschichtswissenschaft, ISSN 0932-9951, Vol. 33, p. 288-300Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article deals with the resistance activities towards the National Socialist ideology and the Hitler regime of the Swedish vicar in Berlin, 1929–1942, Birger Forell. Its focus is a series of articles about the Kirchenkampf that Forell published anonymously in the ecumenical, Scandinavian journal Kristen Gemenskap. Through these articles, an enlightened readership could follow the development in »The Third Reich« from within. Forell was convinced that writing these articles was the most efficient form of aid that he could give to his persecuted friends within the Bekennende Kirche. Against this particular background, some principal reflections are presented on the themes of resistance and collaboration, and on totalitarian ideas and Christianity. I apply Werner Rings distinction between symbolic, polemic, defensive and offensive resistance on the Berlin based activities of Birger Forell. Birger Forell was representative for a group of Christian intellectuals that we could call the men of 1933; priests and lay people devoted for the liberty of the church who realised what kind of threat to the church the Leviathan like state represented.

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Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG , 2020. Vol. 33, p. 288-300
Keywords [en]
Resistance, National Socialism, Kirchenkamp, Christianity, Antisemitism
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-26069DOI: 10.13109/kize.2020.33.2.288Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85112630695OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-26069DiVA, id: diva2:1581547
Available from: 2021-07-22 Created: 2021-07-22 Last updated: 2024-02-01Bibliographically approved

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