Aryan Jesus Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany

Name: Aryan Jesus Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany
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ISBN: 9780691148052

ISBN-10: 0691148058

ISBN-13: 9780691148052

Edition: 2008

Authors: Susannah Heschel

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Was Jesus a Nazi? During the Third Reich, German Protestant theologians, motivated by racism and tapping into traditional Christian anti-Semitism, redefined Jesus as an Aryan and Christianity as a religion at war with Judaism. In 1939, these theologians established the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life. InThe Aryan Jesus, Susannah Heschel shows that during the Third Reich, the Institute became the most important propaganda organ of German Protestantism, exerting a widespread influence and producing a nazified Christianity that placed anti-Semitism at its theological center. Based on years of archival research,The Aryan Jesusexamines the…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.65" wide x 9.13" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Illustrations


A Note on Archival Sources


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction: Theology and Race



Draining Jesus of Jewishness



The Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life, 1939 to 1942



Projects of the Institute



The Making of Nazi Theologians



The Faculty of Theology at the University of Jena



The Postwar Years


Conclusion: Crucified or Resurrected: Institute Theology in Postwar Germany


Bibliography


Illustration Permissions


Index


Scriptural Citations Index