Between Humanist Philosophy and Apocalyptic Theology: The Twentieth Century Sojourn of Samuel Stefan Osusky

by Paul R. Hinlicky

Book Overview

Samuel Stefan Osusky was a leading intellectual in Slovak Lutheranism and a bishop in his church. In 1937 he delivered a prescient lecture to the assembled clergy, "The Philosophy of Fascism, Bolshevism and Hitlerism", that clearly foretold the dark days ahead. As wartime bishop, he co-authored a "Pastoral Letter on the Jewish Question", which publicly decried the deportation of Jews to Poland in 1942; in 1944 he was imprisoned by the Gestapo for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567683818
• ISBN13: 9780567683816
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"