caa a22 4500 378868640 CHVBK 20180305123404.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20031120xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/znth.10.2.196 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/znth.10.2.196 Schneider Jörg 1 Universität Tübingen, Evangelisch-theologisches Seminar, Praktisch-theologische Abteilung, Liebermeierstr. 12, 72076 Tübingen, Deutschland/Germany. Oswald Spenglers "Der Untergang des Abendlandes” als Katalysator theologischer Kriseninterpretationen zum Verhältnis von Christentum und Kultur [Elektronische Daten] [Jörg Schneider] This essay concentrates on the reception of Oswald Spengler's book, "Der Untergang des Abendlandes” by German Protestant theologians in the early 1920s, who were more susceptible to the influence of this book than were philosophers. Just after the First World War, for example, Werner Elert, Karl Heim and Ernst Troeltsch - not to mention Emanuel Hirsch, Friedrich Gogarten and others - had to cope with deeply interconnected crises in faith, church, theology and nation. Spengler's idea of cycles in history seemed to help them understand Germany's 1918 defeat not as due to military exhaustion but to a sort of divine destiny. But it also gave hope that this destiny would help to overcome the crisis. The authors drew epon certain aspects of Spengler's thinking to establish their theory of Christianity. However, the influence of Spengler vanished soon enough. As a result, the story of his reception is an example of the struggle to locate Christianity within post-war German society. © Walter de Gruyter Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte Walter de Gruyter 10/2(2003-11-20), 196-223 0943-7592 10:2<196 2003 10 znth https://doi.org/10.1515/znth.10.2.196 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/znth.10.2.196 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Schneider Jörg 1 Universität Tübingen, Evangelisch-theologisches Seminar, Praktisch-theologische Abteilung, Liebermeierstr. 12, 72076 Tübingen, Deutschland/Germany NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte Walter de Gruyter 10/2(2003-11-20), 196-223 0943-7592 10:2<196 2003 10 znth CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter