Abstract
This article explores the spiritual role of Friedrich Nietzsche in Thomas Mann's novel Doktor Faustus. Nietzsche's biographical and intellectual place in the novel has been thoroughly documented in secondary literature, but his moral and spiritual function has received less attention. Specifically, the article identifies Nietzsche as a product of the theological, Christological, and soteriological tradition of the German Reformation. While Nietzsche disowned this tradition entirely, it nonetheless shaped him as a moral and spiritual being. The result is deep ambivalence, placing him 'between good and evil' (Mann's phrase) rather than (in Nietzsche's own famous formulation) 'beyond good and evil'.
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