RT Article
T1 Susannah Heschel’s Aryan Grundmann
JF Journal for the study of the New Testament
VO 32
IS 4
SP 431
OP 494
A1 Morgan, Robert 1940-
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/177699440X
AB This discussion of The Aryan Jesus (2008) welcomes its combating all antisemitism but questions whether it sufficiently distinguishes that from an also deplorable theological anti-Judaism. Heschel’s account of the Eisenach Institute (1939—42), which aimed to de-Judaize German Christianity, provides a one-sided impression of 1930s German church history. The book’s broader thesis that Christianity is racist depends on a failure to distinguish clearly between the churches and the völkisch movement that stands behind Nazi antisemitism. Criticisms made of individual biblical scholars confirm the responsibility to counter an anti-Judaism that was bound to fuel modern secular antisemitism. Both are different from the Christian antisemitism prevalent in the Middle Ages.
K1 Grundmann
K1 Schlatter
K1 German church struggle
K1 Eisenach Institute
K1 völkisch movement
K1 Anti-judaism
K1 Antisemitism
DO 10.1177/0142064X10366334