The notion that God calls peoples, a notion that has biblical roots, was a means of countering the humiliation and distressing conditions in post–World War I Germany. The terms of peace agreed upon within the 1919 Treaty of Versailles were perceived with deep indignation as the “pushing aside” of the German people. The distress of one’s own people became a recurring, common theme. See DBWE 10:373n34, 339–42.
See also Willie James Jenning Christian Imagination that talks about colonialist theolgy as Essentially capitalist and not focused on loving the neighbors
