O Jesus Ariano. O imaginário e as concepções historiográficas do Jesus Histórico na Alemanha Nazista.

Abstract

This work aims to discuss that German theologians, committed to the Nazi ideology, including through the loyalty oath that made to the Fuhrer, 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 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.