Historiosophy as a response to catastrophe: studying Nazi Christians as a Jew

Examines Protestant theologians during the Third Reich and the ways in which a signficant number of them lent support to National Socialist antisemitic theology. It seemed to many pastors and theologians in Germany to offer a great opportunity for reviving the church. Heschel expresses disbelief that acts of atrocity were all too often committed by educated, cultivated Germans steeped in European Christian culture.