Ibid., 44–47.
18. Alfred Delp, Gesammelte Schriften 2: Philosophische Schriften, ed. Roman Bleistein (Frankfurt am Main: Josef Knecht, 1985), 39–148.
19. Regency is a period of apostolic work in between philosophy and theology studies for Jesuits in formation.
20. See Roman Bleistein, Alfred Delp: Geschichtes eines Zeugen (Frankfurt am Main: Josef Knecht, 1989), 50–61 and Andreas Schaller, Lass dich los zu deinem Gott: Eine theologische Studie zur Anthropologie von Alfred Delp SJ (Freiburg: Herder, 2012), 66–74.
21. Delp, Gesammelte Schriften 2, 88–90.
22. According to John Cihak, anxiety pervades and characterizes the contemporary situation of the West. The rise of atheism, the dominance of the technocratic paradigm, the demise of hope in human reason due to the World Wars and multiple genocides, and the threat of nuclear annihilation have led people to a sense of fear and insecurity. See Cihak, Balthasar and Anxiety.
23. Delp, Gesammelte Schriften 2, 72.
24. The root word in Latin angor means “to choke” and “to feel oppressiveness or apprehension.” The Latin word angustiae means “narrowness, crampedness or tightness,” and angere means “choking in the throat,” or “an oppressiveness in the heart.” See J. Ritter, Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie (Basel-Stuttgart: Schwabe, 1971), 310.
25. Delp, Gesammelte Schriften 2, 93.
26. Ibid., 95.
27. Ibid., 95.
28. Ibid., 97.
29. Ibid., 110.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Anthony Giddens asserts that anxiety is a pervasive character of modernity because of its dynamism. The unmooring of persons from local, pre-given communities brings forth questions concerning the underlying meaning of human life, including the ground and aim of one’s finite existence and the sense of one’s relations with other persons. Consequently, insecurity characterizes the modern individual, “whose sense of self is fractured.” See Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991), 53–55.
34. Delp, Gesammelte Schriften 2, 119.
35. Ibid., 127.
36. Ibid., 143.
37. Ibid., 131.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid., 143.
40. Ibid., 147.
41. Bleistein, Alfred Delp, 1989, 59.
42. Quadragesimo Anno (QA), published by Pius XI on May 15, 1931, commemorated the fortieth anniversary of Rerum Novarum. It reinforced the Church’s solidarity with the plight of workers during the Great Depression; criticized the enormous, increasing disparity between the wealthy and the poor; clarified the rights and duties of labor and capital; and suggested a “safe road” for repairing the socioeconomic ills that would avoid the errors of both unrestrained capitalism and collectivism (fascism or communism). It suggested that the right to private property was not absolute and workers with families should be given a family wage. For further analysis see: Christine Firer Hinze, “Quadragesimo Anno,” in Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004), 151–74.
43. Bleistein, Alfred Delp, 1989, 47–48.
44. In the German federal election of 1930, which drew an 82 percent voter turnout, Germany witnessed the rise of the National Socialist to the second largest political party. The Nazi Party dramatically increased its number of seats from 12 to 107.
45. Alfred Delp, Gesammelte Schriften 5: Briefe – Texte – Rezensionen, ed. Roman Bleistein (Frankfurt am Main: Josef Knecht, 1988), 38.
46. The Centre Party represented Catholics and political centrists in the Weimar Republic. Increasing secularization and polarization gradually undermined the influence of the Centre Party. According to Detlev J.K. Peukert, “it is important to note that the Catholic political movement was highly resistant to the electoral blandishments of” National Socialism. See The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity, trans. Richard Deveson (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001), 154–56.
47. Alfred Delp, Gesammelte Schriften 1: Geistliche Schriften, ed. Roman Bleistein (Frankfurt am Main: Josef Knecht, 1982), 51–68.
48. Kevin J. Wetmore, “Jesuit Theatre and Drama,” Oxford Handbooks Online, July 2016, 9, http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935420.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935420-e-55.
49. Delp, Gesammelte Schriften 1, 54–55.
50. Ibid., 57.
51. The advancement of aggressive soldierly masculinity, according to Peukert, should be viewed not just against the Weimar Republic’s egalitarian views of men and women but also the deep-seated economic crisis that left millions of men in unemployment and a state of hopelessness. See The Weimar Republic, 105.
52. Peukert, The Weimar Republic, 105–6.
53. Delp, Gesammelte Schriften 1, 61.
54. Ibid.
55. Peukert, The Weimar Republic, 112–17.
56. Delp, Gesammelte Schriften 1, 65.
57. Ibid, 66.
58. Ibid., 67.
59. Ibid., 67–68.
60. Ibid., 68.
61. Wetmore, “Jesuit Theatre and Drama,” 2.
62. Ibid., 4.
63. “Sensemaking crisis” refers to an event that devastates a community’s view of and relationship with the world.
64. Coady, With Bound Hands, 14.
65. Agustin Rösch was Alfred Delp’s provincial (South German Jesuit Province) from 1935 to 1944. Rösch missioned Delp in 1941 to be his representative in the Kreisau Circle. After the arrest of Father Delp on the suspicion that he was connected to the attempted assassination of Hitler’s life on July 20, 1944, Rösch went into hiding. He was arrested on January 11, 1945, by the Gestapo and temporarily detained at the Dachau concentration camp. He was sent to Berlin to be tried as a political prisoner but escaped the war with his life as a result of the Red Army’s liberation of Berlin.
66. Ignatiuskolleg was a German Jesuit institution that had been established outside of Germany during Bismarck’s Kulturkampf.
67. A draft of the publication can be found in the archives of the German Jesuit province.
68. Delp, Gesammelte Schriften 1, 200.
69. Ibid.,
