Preaching to Nazi Germany

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Preaching to Nazi Germany is written by William Skiles and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1978700644 (ISBN 10) and 9781978700642 (ISBN 13).

Preaching to Nazi Germany explores the history of Confessing Church preachers' engagement with the Nazi regime through an analysis of their sermons. William Skiles argues that clergy expressed various messages that aimed to limit Nazi interference in church affairs and at times even to undermine the Nazi state and its leaders and policies. Skiles demonstrates that pastors had limited freedom to publicly criticize the Nazi regime, its leaders, and its ideology, and that pastors often used Christian symbols to code their criticisms to remain inconspicuous to the Gestapo or Nazi informants. This book demonstrates how pastors used a sacred text and applied it to the problems of the churches in Nazi Germany.