An edition of Die Kapitulation (1963)

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an analysis of contemporary Catholicism

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An edition of Die Kapitulation (1963)

Capitulation

an analysis of contemporary Catholicism

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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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Sheed & Ward
Language
English
Pages
231

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History, Catholic church, history, World war, 1939-1945, collaborationists, Catholic Church

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Roman Catholic Church

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Germany

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1933-1963
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Cover of: Capitulation
Capitulation: an analysis of contemporary Catholicism
1967, Sheed & Ward
Paperback in English
Cover of: La capitolazione ovvero Il Cattolicesimo tedesco oggi
La capitolazione ovvero Il Cattolicesimo tedesco oggi
1967, Morcelliana
Hardcover in Italian
Cover of: Capitulation
Capitulation: the lesson of German Catholicism
1967, Herder and Herder
Hardcover in English
Cover of: La capitulación
La capitulación: El catolicismo alemán, hoy
1966, Editorial Nova Terra
in Spanish
Cover of: Die Kapitulation
Die Kapitulation: oder, Deutscher Katholizismus heute
1963, Rowohlt
Paperback in German
Cover of: Die Kapitulation
Die Kapitulation: oder, Deutscher Katholizismus heute
1963, Rowohlt
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Professor J. M. Cameron
Page vii
1. Power and Powerlessness: The Paradox of German Catholicism
Page 1
2. German Catholicism and its Milieu
Page 13
3. The Milieu's System of Value and Virtue
Page 26
4. Who Capitulated?
Page 39
5. 1935-1945: General Line and Resistence
Page 56
6. The War: Patriots and Rebels
Page 75
7. 1945-1948: Another Test, by Examples
Page 104
8. The Minority's New Image of the Church
Page 126
9. The Milieu in the Post-War Era
Page 143
10. Catholicism and its Place in the System
Page 155
11. A Word to the Reader
Page 186
12. How Long Before the Next Capitulation?
Page 204
Epilogue by Heinrich Böll
Page 225

Edition Notes

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

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London, Melbourne
Series
Sheed & Ward stagbooks
Translation Of
Die Kapitulation oder Deutscher Katholizismus heute
Translated From
German

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
282.43
Library of Congress
BX1536.2 .M3513

Contributors

Translator
Edward Quinn
Foreword
J. M. Cameron
Afterword
Heinrich Böll

The Physical Object

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

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5576284M
Internet Archive
capitulationanal0000amer
LCCN
67087886
OCLC/WorldCat
956126
Deutsche National Bibliothek
578536706

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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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