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PublisherConcordia Publishing House

ISBN-100758608772

ISBN-139780758608772

eBay Product ID (ePID)58623265

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Book TitleLutherans Against Hitler : the Untold Story

Number of Pages394 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2007

TopicChristianity / Lutheran

IllustratorYes

GenreReligion

AuthorLowell C. Green

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight22.9 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2006-034613

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal284.1/43/09043

SynopsisHow free-market economies really work (and why they work so well) Are free market economies really based on fleecing the consumer? Is the U.S. economy truly just a giant free-for-all that encourages duplicity in our everyday transactions? Is everyone from corporate CEOs to your local car salesman really looking to make a buck at your expense? In Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't, economist and bestselling author John R. Lott, Jr., answers these and other common economic questions, bravely confronting the profound distrust of the market that the bestselling book Freakonomics has helped to popularize. Using clear and hard-hitting examples, Lott shows how free markets liberate the best, most creative, and most generous aspects of our society--while efforts to constrain economic liberty, no matter how well-intentioned, invariably lead to increased poverty and injustice. Extending its rigorous economic analysis even further to our political and criminal justice systems, Freedomnomics reveals: ? How the free market creates incentives for people to behave honestly ? How political campaign restrictions keep incumbents in power ? Why legalized abortion leads to family breakdown, which creates more crime ? Why affirmative action in police departments leads to higher crime rates ? How women's suffrage led to a massive increase in the size of government · Why women become more conservative when they get married and more liberal when they get divorced ? How secret ballots reduce voter participation ? Why state-owned companies and government agencies are much more likely to engage in unfair predation than are private firms ? Why the controversial assertions made in the trendy book Freakonomics are almost entirely wrong Entertaining, persuasive, and based on dozens of economic studies spanning decades, Freedomnomics not only shows how free markets really work--but proves that, when it comes to promoting prosperity and economic justice, nothing works better., New historical sources shed a different light upon the teachings and actions of Lutherans under Adolf Hitler., For decades, Lutherans have been accused of a passivistic response to Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. In this careful analysis of original documents and the personal reflections of those involved in the church struggle under Hitler, Lowell Green seeks to set history straight. He identifies how Confessional Lutherans faced Nazi threats and survived to uphold the faith of Luther in the country of his birth. Green addresses both the successful statements against Hitler's regime, such as the Bethel Confession, and the divisive documents, such as the Barmen Declaration. Readers also will discover the stories of courageous church leaders who prevented the Nazis from absorbing Lutheran Churches into the Reich Church. About the Cover Adolf Hitler was a master of propaganda. He carefully arranged photo opportunities that would feed the need of the German people to see the Führer as "one of them." In this image, the photographer captured the supposed "heretic" leaving a church in Wilhelmshaven. The presence of the cross over Hitler's bowed head became an essential part of the propaganda to promote Hitler as sympathetic to the Christian faith., While much has been written about the Christian churches in Hitler's Germany, no books focus on the viewpoint of Confessional Lutheran churches, their leaders, and theologians. In this book, important new historical sources shed a different light upon the teachings and actions of Lutherans under Adolph Hitler. Author Lowell Green offers a new perspecitve, addressing the background and basis for the actions of the Confessional Lutheran Church that have been missing from so many discussions about the Lutheran Church and its response to Hitler in Third Reich Germany.

LC Classification NumberBX8020.G74 2007