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Copyright Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gera, Programa de Posgraduacao em Ciencias da Religiao Jan-Mar 2017

Abstract

This work aims to discuss that German theologians, committed to the Nazi ideology, including through the loyalty oath that made to the Führer, neither opted to the "virtual silence" nor demonstrated a "limited interest" for the historical Jesus. On the contrary, they not only potentiated the "portrait" of Jesus as an Aryan, as well as popularized it through his writings, his homilies and their everyday experiences. It must be paid attention here: the consolidation of this new portrait is before the advent of Hitler, as can be read in a wide range of works, such as, for example, Ernst Renan, Theodor Keim and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. However, it is precisely when Hitler rises to power that the reading of the Aryan Jesus won a scale hitherto unimagined, since it culminates in the effective collaboration of a significant number of Christian theologians with the murderous policy of the Nazi state, culminating in the Jewish Holocaust.

Details

Title
O Jesus Ariano. O imaginário e as concepções historiográficas do Jesus Histórico na Alemanha Nazista/The Aryan Jesus. The imaginary and historiographical conceptions of the Historical Jesus in the Nazi Germany
Author
Chevitarese, André Leonardo; Justi, Daniel Brasil
Pages
188-205
Section
Dossiê: Imaginário e Diálogo Inter-religioso - Artigo Original
Publication year
2017
Publication date
Jan-Mar 2017
Publisher
Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gera, Programa de Posgraduacao em Ciencias da Religiao
ISSN
16799615
e-ISSN
21755841
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Portuguese
ProQuest document ID
1885744492
Copyright
Copyright Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gera, Programa de Posgraduacao em Ciencias da Religiao Jan-Mar 2017