Franklin Littel

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Franklin H. Littel is an American Protestant scholar. He is known for his writings rejecting supersessionism and, in light of the Holocaust, advocated educational programs to improve relations between Christians and Jews.[1] In his book Historical Atlas of Christianity, first published in 1976, he maintains that many Christian churches failed to deal honestly with their complicity in the murder of European Jews.[2] In his youth, he attended a Nazi rally in Nuremberg,[3] and he would later formulate, in a paper entitled Holocaust and the Christians, that the lure of Nazism was caused by failures in Christian spirituality originating from the First Council of Nicea in 325 CE.[3] He also wrote in theological support of Zionism.[4]

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  1. ^ Fischel, Jack R.; Susan M. Ortmann (2004). The Holocaust and Its Religious Impact: A Critical Assessment and Annotated Bibliography. Praeger/Greenwood, 290. ISBN 0313309507. 
  2. ^ Fischel. Op. cit., 23. 
  3. ^ a b Fischel. Op. cit., 149. 
  4. ^ Weaver, Alain Epp. Constantinianism, Zionism, Diaspora: Toward a Political Theology of Exile and Return. Mennoite Central Committee.
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