Beschreibung:
Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of "Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus" and the editor of "Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays of Abraham Joshua Heschel".
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.
List of Illustrations ix A Note on Archival Sources xi Acknowledgments xiii List of Abbreviations xvii INTRODUCTION: Theology and Race 1 CHAPTER I: Draining Jesus of Jewishness 26 CHAPTER II: The Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Infl uence on German Church Life, 1939 to 1942 67 CHAPTER III: Projects of the Institute 106 CHAPTER IV: The Making of Nazi Theologians 166 CHAPTER V: The Faculty of Theology at the University of Jena 201 CHAPTER VI: The Postwar Years 242 CONCLUSION: Crucifi ed or Resurrected: Institute Theology in Postwar Germany 279 Bibliography 291 Illustration Permissions 327 Index 329 Scriptural Citations Index 339