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A study of the Social Christian movement within French Protestantism and its role in resisting the persecution of the Jews in World War Two.
How does one become 'righteous among the Nations'? In the case of Henri Nick (1868-1954) and André Trocmé (1901-1971), two French Protestant pastors who received the title for their acts of solidarity toward persecuted Jews, it was because they had been immersed, from an early age, in the discourses and practices of social Christianity. Focussing on the lives of these two remarkable figures of twentieth-century Christianity, Revivalism and Social Christianity is the first study in English on the Social Gospel in French Protestantism.
Chalamet presents a genealogy of the movement, from its emergence in the last decades of the nineteenth century to its high point during World War II, in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where Trocmé and many local people rescued hundreds of Jewish refugees. As social Christians who prayed and worked for the coming of God's kingdom on earth in the midst of a society ravaged by two world wars, Henri Nick and André Trocmé combined a deep revivalist faith with a concern for the concrete conditions in which people live.
How does one become 'righteous among the Nations'? In the case of Henri Nick (1868-1954) and André Trocmé (1901-1971), two French Protestant pastors who received the title for their acts of solidarity toward persecuted Jews, it was because they had been immersed, from an early age, in the discourses and practices of social Christianity. Focussing on the lives of these two remarkable figures of twentieth-century Christianity, Revivalism and Social Christianity is the first study in English on the Social Gospel in French Protestantism.
Chalamet presents a genealogy of the movement, from its emergence in the last decades of the nineteenth century to its high point during World War II, in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where Trocmé and many local people rescued hundreds of Jewish refugees. As social Christians who prayed and worked for the coming of God's kingdom on earth in the midst of a society ravaged by two world wars, Henri Nick and André Trocmé combined a deep revivalist faith with a concern for the concrete conditions in which people live.
Price: $29.99
Pages: 232
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Lutterworth Press
Publication Date:
28 September 2017
Trim Size: 9.02 X 5.98 in
ISBN: 9780718895037
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, Christianity, Theology
People marvel that the folk at Le Chambon took in the Jews. But what Chalamet helps us see is this did not come out of the blue. Rather, this was made possible by people such as Henri Nick and Jacques Kaltenbach, whose discovery of the social dimensions of the gospel made [the actions of] Trocmé possible. The implications are clear-heroism is the outworking of lives that never appear heroic.
— Stanley Hauerwas, Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke Divinity School
Based on original archival research, Chalamet richly fills in the background of the famous events at Le Chambon, where the Christian community, led by André Trocmé, saved the lives of thousands of Jewish children during the Nazi occupation of France. . . . Nonviolent social action and spirituality were forged in a crucible of courage and suffering to produce a new and compelling version of the Social Gospel.
— George Hunsinger, Professor of Systematic Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary
This book helps us rediscover the deep spiritual and social influence in the first half of the twentieth century of the Protestant movement known as the Social Gospel. The author unveils the ties between two great pastors, Henri Nick and André Trocmé, who sought to evangelize the workers and who contributed to the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust. The result is a real contribution to the history of twentieth-century France.
— Patrick Cabanel, Professor of Late Modern History, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail
Anyone interested in Trocmé and Le Chambon will find this book to be very informative as it successfully contextualises the man and the events on the Plateau during the war within a broad and complex history. Chalamet also deserves credit for bringing more attention to Henri Nick and other members of le Christianisme social, thereby demonstrating how noble actions are rarely the result of one person at a given moment, but of many people over time.
— Alicia Batten
— Stanley Hauerwas, Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke Divinity School
Based on original archival research, Chalamet richly fills in the background of the famous events at Le Chambon, where the Christian community, led by André Trocmé, saved the lives of thousands of Jewish children during the Nazi occupation of France. . . . Nonviolent social action and spirituality were forged in a crucible of courage and suffering to produce a new and compelling version of the Social Gospel.
— George Hunsinger, Professor of Systematic Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary
This book helps us rediscover the deep spiritual and social influence in the first half of the twentieth century of the Protestant movement known as the Social Gospel. The author unveils the ties between two great pastors, Henri Nick and André Trocmé, who sought to evangelize the workers and who contributed to the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust. The result is a real contribution to the history of twentieth-century France.
— Patrick Cabanel, Professor of Late Modern History, University of Toulouse-Le Mirail
Anyone interested in Trocmé and Le Chambon will find this book to be very informative as it successfully contextualises the man and the events on the Plateau during the war within a broad and complex history. Chalamet also deserves credit for bringing more attention to Henri Nick and other members of le Christianisme social, thereby demonstrating how noble actions are rarely the result of one person at a given moment, but of many people over time.
— Alicia Batten
List of Images and Map
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One
The Meanings of Conversion-Henri Nick
Part Two
André Trocmé's First Steps in Spiritual and Social Christianity
Part Three
The 'Conspiracy of Good' in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
Part Four
After the War
Epilogue
Appendix
Declaration Read by Pastors André Trocmé and Édouard Theis in the Church of Le Chambon on Sunday, June 23, 1940
Bibliography
Index Nominum
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One
The Meanings of Conversion-Henri Nick
Part Two
André Trocmé's First Steps in Spiritual and Social Christianity
Part Three
The 'Conspiracy of Good' in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
Part Four
After the War
Epilogue
Appendix
Declaration Read by Pastors André Trocmé and Édouard Theis in the Church of Le Chambon on Sunday, June 23, 1940
Bibliography
Index Nominum