TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heschel,Susannah
TI  - The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany 
SN  - 9781400851737
AV  - BR856 .H476 2008eb
U1  - 274.3/0823 22
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Church and state
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 1933-1945
KW  - German-Christian movement
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Causes
KW  - Judaism (Christian theology)
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - 20th century
KW  - National socialism and religion
KW  - Protestant churches
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Theology / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abel, Wolfgang
KW  - Altenburg, church in
KW  - Angelos
KW  - Arische Rundschau
KW  - Assyriology
KW  - Augsburg Confession
KW  - Babylonian mythology
KW  - Barmen Declaration (1934)
KW  - Bayreuth Blätter
KW  - Birnbaum, Walter
KW  - Buchenwald concentration camp
KW  - Call of Life
KW  - Catholicism
KW  - Conti, Leonardo
KW  - Dalman, Gustav
KW  - Deutsches Christentum
KW  - Dungs, Heinz
KW  - Enlightenment philosophy
KW  - Ericksen, Robert
KW  - Faulhaber, Michael von
KW  - Frank, Walter
KW  - Generalanzeiger
KW  - Gilgamesh epic
KW  - Grundmann, Emil
KW  - Happich, Karlheinz
KW  - Heinsdorff, Emil Ernst
KW  - Hellenism
KW  - Hoffmann, Richard
KW  - Indology
KW  - Institutum Judaicum
KW  - Jesus
KW  - Johannsen, Hermann
KW  - Josephus
KW  - Kerrl, Hanns
KW  - Kristnallnacht pogrom
KW  - Lincoln, Bruce
KW  - Ludendorff, Erich
KW  - Mauersberger, Erhard
KW  - Mendelssohn, Moses
KW  - Military Field Hymnal
KW  - Nordland
KW  - Nuremburg Laws
KW  - Oberheid, Heinrich
KW  - Our Fighting Songs
KW  - catechism revision
KW  - church interiors
KW  - euthanasia programs
KW  - free churches
KW  - incarnational theology
KW  - miscegenation
KW  - monogenesis
KW  - nationalism, German
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; A Note on Archival Sources --; Acknowledgments --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction. Theology and Race --; Chapter I. Draining Jesus of Jewishness --; Chapter II. The Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life, 1939 to 1942 --; Chapter III. Projects of the Institute --; Chapter IV. The Making of Nazi Theologians --; Chapter V. The Faculty of Theology at the University of Jena --; Chapter VI. The Postwar Years --; Conclusion. Crucified or Resurrected: Institute Theology in Postwar Germany --; Bibliography --; Illustration Permissions --; Index --; Scriptural Citations Index; restricted access
N2  - 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 The 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 Jesus 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. The Aryan Jesus raises vital questions about Christianity's recent past and the ambivalent place of Judaism in Christian thought
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400851737?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400851737
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