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Before Auschwitz: What Christian Theology Must Learn from the Rise of Nazism Paperback – June 27, 2013

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  • Paperback: 246 pages
  • Publisher: Cascade Books (June 27, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1620321033
  • ISBN-13: 978-1620321034
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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By Peter S. Bradley on September 7, 2015
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Before Auschwitz by Paul R. Hinlicky is hard book to categorize, but very interesting and one in which the parts, in my opinion based on my recent reading of many books on Christianity and the Nazis is very timely. The thesis of the book seems to be very contrarian. It is hard to summarize this book since it is so filled with insight and facts. If I were to attempt to summarize the gist of the book it would seem that while acknowledging that Christian anti-Judaism laid a foundation for the Holocaust, Hinlicky seems to be arguing that the connection is overstated and that Christian theology has been warped by a guilt complex it doesn't deserve. Hinlicky's purpose seems to be to understand the Holocaust, but the problem is that "to understand all is to forgive all and perhaps to despise all," which in the context of the Holocaust is a frightening prospect, but there is a duty to "judge precisely and deeply" rather than fashionably.

Hinlicky refers to avoiding the "retrospective fallacy" - "we resist the temptation to "demonize" fellow human beings, criminals though they are, in order to hold them along with ourselves morally accountable as human beings, though naturally just this accountability entails a viable distinction between perpetrator and victim." This doesn't seem to be a very good definition of "retrospective fallacy," which I think means judging other people on what we know now, rather than judging them based on what they then knew.
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Much of the Holocaust stems from the Anti-Judaism of Christianity through the centuries and how it got incorporated into the politics and we saw the results ! Death for MILLIONS !
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