Sympathy Solidarity And Silence

This resource compellingly retells how Baptists in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany responded to Nazism and the ensuing Holocaust. Readers will learn that European Baptists faced the same challenges as those in the U.S., but at a much closer distance (physically and politically) to Nazi Germany. And Spitzer shares how European Baptist national fellowships felt compelled to clarify their stance on totalitarianism, Nazism, and anti-Semitism in light of Baptist core convictions such as soul freedom and personality, separation of church and state, and democracy and freedom in both the civil and political spheres. Drawing from historical documents from the Baptist World Alliance, newspaper articles from the Baptist Times and others, and the works of contemporary and historic German theologians, Spitzer weaves a narrative that engages hope.