TY - CHAP
T1 - A Wartime Narrative of Hope
T2 - The Freiburger Bonhoeffer-Kreis’s 1943 Memorandum as a Blueprint for Europe
AU - Steehouder, J.
AU - van den Berg, C.G.
PY - 2019/1/14
Y1 - 2019/1/14
N2 - This chapter analyses the Freiburger Bonhoeffer-Kreis’s 1943 memorandum “Political Community Order: An Attempt of the Christian Conscience in the Political Hardships of Our Time”. Its authors intended the memorandum, dealing with ethical, political and economic foundations of a post-war European order, to serve as a basis for discussion at the 1948 Amsterdam conference where the World Council of Churches (WCC) was established. By conceptualising it as a ‘blueprint’, the framework it provided for both the role of Christian ethics and that of a social market economy in a new political era will be revisited. Moreover, by introducing the concept of ‘emotives’, this chapter shows how associations with a specific vocabulary were applied to oppose National Socialism and to pave the way for an alternative conception of community order. By studying the nexus between emotions and informal networks this chapter offers a framework that can shed new light on European integration history. All in all, this chapter explicates how European integration from the beginning also entailed moral and spiritual dimensions.
AB - This chapter analyses the Freiburger Bonhoeffer-Kreis’s 1943 memorandum “Political Community Order: An Attempt of the Christian Conscience in the Political Hardships of Our Time”. Its authors intended the memorandum, dealing with ethical, political and economic foundations of a post-war European order, to serve as a basis for discussion at the 1948 Amsterdam conference where the World Council of Churches (WCC) was established. By conceptualising it as a ‘blueprint’, the framework it provided for both the role of Christian ethics and that of a social market economy in a new political era will be revisited. Moreover, by introducing the concept of ‘emotives’, this chapter shows how associations with a specific vocabulary were applied to oppose National Socialism and to pave the way for an alternative conception of community order. By studying the nexus between emotions and informal networks this chapter offers a framework that can shed new light on European integration history. All in all, this chapter explicates how European integration from the beginning also entailed moral and spiritual dimensions.
KW - history of European integration
KW - European integration
KW - history of emotions
KW - Second World War
KW - history of international relations
KW - history of Christianity
U2 - 10.4324/9781351141482
DO - 10.4324/9781351141482
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780815351450
T3 - Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
SP - 57
EP - 74
BT - The Informal Construction of Europe
A2 - van Heumen, Lennaert
A2 - Roos, Mechthild
PB - Routledge
CY - Abingdon, Oxon
ER -