Biblical ABCs by Eleonora Hof, Collin Cornell, Rinse Reeling ... - 9781978707559

Biblical ABCsThe Basics of Christian Resistance\nAuthor(s): Eleonora Hof, Collin Cornell, Rinse Reeling Brouwer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic\nISBN-13: 9781978707559, 978-1978707559\nSynopsis\nBiblical ABCs is a theological resistance primer. Its author, Kornelis Heiko Miskotte, was a Dutch pastor, theologian, and antifascist who lived and worked under the Nazi occupation of his country. Miskottes family hid Jews inside their home, and Miskotte facilitated underground Christian discussion groups. In 1941, he published an illegal pamphlet as a study guide for these groups. In an atmosphere saturated with propaganda and lies, Miskotte felt that Christians needed a refresher course in the basics of biblical languagean anti-Nazi catechism, as it were. Miskotte presents this instruction in twelve brief, poetic meditations on important terms drawn from the Bible. Like his teacher Karl Barth, Miskotte insi.