An edition of Die Kapitulation (1963)

Capitulation

the lesson of German Catholicism

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An edition of Die Kapitulation (1963)

Capitulation

the lesson of German Catholicism

Powerful, but powerless. Equipped with all the panoply of clerical 'influence', and yet hamstrung by an almost total 'capitulation' to the values of its milieu. For the author, this is the paradox of German Catholicism. The charge is serious, but he makes it stick. The notorious capitulation of German Catholicism to Hitler in 1933 is not to be shrugged off with superficial excuses ("the bishops were weak"): it was the inevitable response to German Catholicism as it had evolved historically to the particular circumstances. More alarmingly, nothing has changed. The next capitulation won't be so obvious or melodramatic, but it will be just as devastating--'the capitulation of healthy human understanding to national pique'. This is a German analysis of German Catholicism, but its method and its questions are of general applicatoin. English-speaking Catholicism may not have German Catholicism's 'position of influence'; but has it avoided capitulation to its milieu?

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Publisher
Herder and Herder
Language
English
Pages
231

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Edition Notes

Bibliographical footnotes.
Translation of Die Kapitulation; oder, Deutscher Katholizismus heute.

Published in
New York City, USA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
282.43
Library of Congress
BX1536.2.M3513 Bi, BX1536.2 .M3513 1967a

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xxiii, 231 p.
Number of pages
231

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5537193M
LCCN
67014139
OCLC/WorldCat
1247872
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B0007DXOG2
Better World Books
BWB341517

Work Description

Amery interpretiert die Unterwerfung des deutschen Katholizismus unter das Hitler-Regime als eine Kapitulation des bürgerlich-katholischen »Milieus": Auch wenn die Kirchenführung 1933 entschieden opponiert hätte - was sie nicht tat -, wäre das »Milieu« nicht gewillt gewesen, »seine soziale Haut zu Markte zu tragen": »Die große Mehrheit derer, die man noch gutgesinnt nennen mochte, verweigerte von Anfang an die Widerstandsarbeit; besser gesagt, sie war gar nicht imstande dazu, weil ihr die seelischen und moralischen Voraussetzungen völlig fehlten.«

Deutschlands »Milieukatholizismus«, so meint der »Kapitulation«-Autor, habe wohl auch gehofft, »im 'allgemeinen 'Aufbruch der Nation' jene Feinde niederzuschlagen, die man vor allen anderen gefürchtet hatte: den Liberalismus, den Sozialismus - und die 'allgemeine Unsittlichkeit', das heißt die individuelle Emanzipation und ihre negativen Folgen. Vielleicht gelang es, mit einem Wort, die gute alte Ordnung wiederherzustellen«.

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