Advocate of God - Divine Advocate

Japanese: 《神の代理人》 - かみのだいりにん
Advocate of God - Divine Advocate

...As a result, the name itself was forgotten, but it was brought back into the limelight in the 1960s. The trigger was Hochhuth's "God's Vicar" directed by Piskattle. The name in this case comes from the fact that the content of the work is factually supported by documents such as historical materials and testimonies.

From Hochhuth

…Born in Eschwege, a small town in the state of Hesse. His debut work, “God’s Vicar,” which was published in 1963 and staged in Berlin under the direction of E. Piskater, had an unprecedented impact on the entire Christian world, imprinting the name of the unknown author in people’s minds. Using archival materials, he raised serious questions about the wartime attitude of what was, so to speak, the world’s highest religious authority, asking whether Pope Pius XII’s continued silence on the Nazi genocide of the Jews was religiously permissible, and whether his attitude was also a wrong political decision. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "God's Representative" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そのためこの名称自体はかえって忘れられたが,1960年代にあらためて脚光を浴びた。きっかけはピスカートルの演出によるホーホフートの《神の代理人》である。作品の内容が歴史的資料,証言などドキュメントによって事実性を裏づけられている点がこの場合の名称の由来である。…

【ホーホフート】より

…ヘッセン州の小都市エシュウェーゲ生れ。1963年に刊行と同時にベルリンでE.ピスカートルの演出で上演された処女作《神の代理人》は,全キリスト教世界にかつて例をみない衝撃を与え,無名だった作者の名を人びとの脳裏にきざみつけた。ナチスのユダヤ人虐殺に教皇ピウス12世が沈黙を続けたのは宗教的に許されることであったか,その態度は政治的判断としても誤ってはいなかったかと,記録資料を駆使して,いわば世界最高の宗教的権威の戦時中の態度に重大な疑問を投げかけたからである。…

※「《神の代理人》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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