How the First World War Helped Give Rise to Political Theology
https://politicaltheology.com/how-the-first-world-war-helped-give-rise-to-political-theology-ramon-luzarraga/ ~Theologians Supported 1914 War~ Thirteen of the signatories were theologians, Protestant and Catholic alike. They included Gustav Adolf Deissman, Albert Ehrhard,Gerhart EsserHenrich Finke, Wilhelm Herrmann, Anton Koch, Joseph Mausbach, Sebastian Merkle, Friedrich Naumann, Adolf Schlatter, August Schmidlin, and Reinhold Seeberg. The leading theologian in the group, and one of the leading intellectuals among the ninety-three, was Adolf von Harnack. ~A Lie of the Manifesto (1914)~ the Manifesto claimed the German army acted in Belgium out of self-defense against intense fighting by irregular forces. This claim was an outright lie, because what became known as “The Rape of Belgium” served no military purpose, and caused the deaths of innocent civilians and the burning of villages and towns besides Louvain. ~Barth's Understanding of Liberal Theology~ Barth had lon...