A half century ago, leaders in Germany, a Christian nation, decided to kill every Jewish child, woman, and man they could lay their hands on. Now, David Gushee explores the actions and inactions of millions of Europeans whose Jewish neighbors were being led to the slaughter. What motivated this extremely small minority--at the risk of their own lives--to rescue Jews in need?
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This well-written book covers a topic neglected by most Christian scholars and includes psychological, social and religious profiles of 100,000 Christians who risked their well-being to save 250,000 Jews during from the Holocaust. ns Some hid Jews in their homes; some obtained false papers for Jews; some passed orphaned Jewish children off as their own. Gushee discovers several common traits among the rescuers, including a lifelong familiarity with the Bible that, when the crisis came, provided a reservoir of moral courage.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This should be required reading for all Christians!,
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This review is from: The Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: A Christian Interpretation (Paperback)
I first bought this book out of curiosity. After I had read the preface, I couldn't put it down. For three days I read and reread this book. Not only is it intellectually stimulating, it is also spiritually challenging. It makes one wonder, "Would this happen today?"
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Light Amongst the Horror,
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This review is from: The Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: A Christian Interpretation (Paperback)
Out of the numerous holocaust studies, there have been relatively few about the "righteous gentiles," that small number (far less than 1%) of non-Jewish Europeans who risked themselves and often their families to save Jews from the Nazis. Of that small number of studies, none had analyzed the phenomenon from a specifically Christian perspective, despite the fact that many of the rescuers were professing Christians. David Gushee's remarkable study fills this gap. Gushee admits that most Christians stood by and did nothing while the Nazis took their Jewish neighbors to the death camps. Some even cooperated or were themselves perpetrators of the atrocities--often having learned to hate Jews in church. So, Gushee investigates to find out why these Christians were different. What made them rescue Jews when so few others had such moral heroism? Gushee seeks to answer this question so that today's chueches can work to produce that type of Christian and not the bystanders or perpetrators. He also concludes that political protections for the basic human rights of all must be firmly in place--by the time one needs heroic morality, it is too late to stop genocidal horrors. This book is rivetting. One can only pray that it finds a wide audience which heeds its author's lessons well.
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