The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany by Susannah Heschel

The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany

Susannah Heschel

339 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 theol...

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