The Aryan Jesus
ISBN: 978-06-911480-5-2
Format: 15.6x23.4cm
Liczba stron: 360
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydanie: 2010 r.
Język: angielski
Dostępność: dostępny
<p>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. In <i>The Aryan Jesus</i>, 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.<br><br><br> Based on years of archival research, <i>The Aryan Jesus</i> examines the membership and activities of this controversial theological organization. With headquarters in Eisenach, the Institute sponsored propaganda conferences throughout the Nazi Reich and published books defaming Judaism, including a dejudaized version of the New Testament and a catechism proclaiming Jesus as the savior of the Aryans. Institute members--professors of theology, bishops, and pastors--viewed their efforts as a vital support for Hitler's war against the Jews. Heschel looks in particular at Walter Grundmann, the Institute's director and a professor of the New Testament at the University of Jena. Grundmann and his colleagues formed a community of like-minded Nazi Christians who remained active and continued to support each other in Germany's postwar years.<br><br><br><br> <i>The Aryan Jesus</i> raises vital questions about Christianity's recent past and the ambivalent place of Judaism in Christian thought.</p>